What's new in GFI MailEssentials 11?

The information in this article applies to:

  • GFI Mail essentials 5 (WinNT)
  • GFI Mail essentials 6 (Win2000)
  • GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 10
  • GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 11
  • GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7
  • GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 8
  • GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 9

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The Directory Harvesting module supports LDAP.  This means that checking if users exist is not limited to just Active Directory any more but is now also done against other email servers which support LDAP (for example, native Exchange 5.5). With LDAP, one can also install the product in a DMZ and then make look-ups against Active Directory by opening the LDAP port in the firewall.

  1. A new anti-spam feature has been implemented which checks email content against SURBL servers. Administrators can configure multiple SURBL servers, add their own and also define the priority of which server should be checked first and so on. More information on SURBL can be found at http://www.surbl.org.
  2. The DNSRBL feature has been updated to make it more powerful and flexible. Administrators can now configure multiple DNSRBL servers, add their own and also define the priority of which server should be checked first and so on.
  3. A New Senders feature has been added to the product. This feature helps the users to better organize emails in their email client and provides an instant view of emails sent from people with whom the user never had any previous contact. If an email is not found to be spam by the GFI MailEssentials anti-spam modules and that same email is also not on the white-list, then the New Senders module has the ability to move the email to a user's subfolder (example: Inbox\NewSenders).
  4. When tagging email as spam, there is now the option to choose if you want to prepend or append the tag text to the subject and also to tag the email as an X- header in the email Internet Headers.
  5. The SPF anti-spam feature can now also be enabled when GFI MailEssentials is not installed on a perimeter (gateway) server. This is due to a newly implemented feature called 'Perimeter SMTP Servers' where GFI MailEssentials detects the perimeter server.
  6. All the anti-spam plug-ins can be ordered by priority. This means that now the administrator can select which anti-spam feature must be applied first and so on; for example, one can set the Whitelist to check emails before the SPF module does.
  7. A new IP Whitelist has been added, where the administrator can white-list IPs or group of IPs (subnet) from which emails will not be checked for SPAM.
  8. Reliability improvements have been implemented into GFI MailEssentials where writing to mdb and chc files was being done.

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