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All email carries a threat, whether from an outside hacker attempting to damage your system, or an internal user unwittingly getting the company into trouble. THE SOLUTION MAIL ESSENTIALS and MAIL SECURITY provides protection against hackers, viruses,spam and more.
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Mail Essentials seamlessly integrates with your Exchange system to provide an instant, message security solution. THIS MEANS... Your email system is protected against direct attack. You can protect your company against legal attack. You can improve the efficiency of your mail system.
Content checking/filtering An important feature of Mail essentials with it's optional Mail Security pack is its ability to check the content of in- and outbound mail. For instance, you can check for offensive language or confidential information or files that might be leaving the company unauthorized. You can also choose to ‘quarantine’ emails with certain content or attachments, so that the adminstrator can view them before deciding whether they can be sent. Anti spam Spam is a known problem. Messages sent by spammers contain useless information that cause frustration and take up valuable time. Although some mail servers include a facility to block out email from certain domains, current day spammers are much more advanced than that. They frequently change their domains to avoid this kind of blocking. Therefore, Mail essentials includes an advanced anti spam module that is able to pick up on typical spam practices, such as incorrect Reply To addresses, From headers containing incorrect domains, etc. In this way, Mail essentials stops spam from reaching your company. What’s more, you can also stop spammers using your mail server to relay their unsolicited mail! Company-wide disclaimer/footer text Because companies are effectively responsible for the content of their employees’ email messages, it is extremely important to ensure that a disclaimer is added to each outgoing email. Furthermore, this disclaimer/footer text can be used to add a uniform message to each email, such as an address or company slogan, or to share the company’s public key. Although most employees have their own personal signature, the disclaimer/footer text ensures that the corporate message is always communicated. Email encryption/decryption (using PGP) Mail essentials includes server-based PGP encryption and decryption of email. This way you can exchange e-mail securely with anyone on the Internet, without fear of email interception, tampering or unauthorized reading. Because the encryption/decryption of email messages is completed at server level, it is totally transparent to users. This eliminates the need for end-user training and saves costs as an encryption package need not be installed on every machine. Mail essentials uses PGP encryption, which is widely used and supported by all popular email clients. You can also use the encryption module to send webform output from your website (such as order forms with credit card information) securely to your email server. Compress email attachments Bandwidth is expensive. Even ‘simple’ email attachments, such as a Word document with a few graphics can easily grow to about 1 Mb or larger, taking a substantial toll on your bandwidth. Although attachments can be brought back to a few Kb by compressing them, the process of compressing files is cumbersome. However, with Mail essentials it is possible to automatically compress attachments at server level, saving your employees time and always ensuring that the minimum amount of bandwidth is used. Mail archiving to a database With Mail essentials you can archive all in- and outbound mail in an ODBC database of your choice. This allows you to keep a back-up of all email communications and easily search for a customer’s emails. It also enables you to check the content of messages and quality of responses. Reporting Mail essentials also includes a detailed reporting module that allows you to create reports on Internet mail usage, including: daily statistics report, detailed log of sent email including confirmation of remote mail server, reports per user or by date range, hourly server usage, volume reports and logs of the most used domain names for sending/receiving mail. These reports can be used for checking delivery time of an email as well as for costing purposes. Virus checking Mail Security is an optional module that can automatically protect your company from viruses transmitted via email by analyzing all email attachments and scanning them for viruses using any popular virus-scanning product. Mail essentials can also check all outgoing mail for viruses. Mail Security comes with McAfee, Norman, Kaspersky and BitDefender virus scanners embedded but can also use other scanners as well - giving you multiple protection. In addition the security engine finds mail exploits, HTML scripts, Word macros and hidden file extension exploits too. This really is one of the safest systems around, at our customers sites with GFI installed they have never been affected by a mail virus or mail attack. Newsletter and Discussions Lists Both morally and legally newsletters now need to be on an "opt-in" basis, that is the recipient confirms that they want to receive the newsletter. Mail Essentials handles the whole opt-in process for you, the recipient mails the newslist, the newslist seeks confirmation from the recipient, the recipient is added to the list. Capable of handling 10's or 1,000's of addresses. Also mailing lists discussions, automatically distributes a single mail to many addreses and lets individuals reply to the group - similar to Yahoo Groups. Personalized server-based auto replies with tracking number Auto replies can be more than just an ‘out of office’ reply. With automatic replies, you can let your customers know that their email has been received and that their request is being handled. A unique tracking number is assigned to give your customers and employees an easy point of reference. Seamless integration with Exchange Server Mail essentials integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange server. Effectively it becomes a gateway to the Internet for all outbound and inbound email. It resides in front of Exchange server, receiving and sending all its email. The users will not be aware of Mail essentials and need no additional software on their workstations. Mail essentials also works with Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise or another SMTP/POP3 server. Remotely monitor Mail status Mail Essentials allows authorised users to monitor the status of all inbound and outbound mail via a web browser. In addition, one can view the send and receive logs remotely. POP3 downloader Some mail servers, such as Exchange Server and Lotus Notes, are unable to download mail from POP3 mailboxes. Mail essentials includes a utility that can forward and distribute mail from POP3 mailboxes to mailboxes on your mail server.
Your mail protection ships as two different and distinct modules: MAIL ESSENTIALS handles anti-spam detection, as well as archiving, monitoring and automatic disclaimers. MAIL SECURITY handles anti-virus checking. It ships with three different anti-virus checkers. Optional updates are available on all three virus checkers. Annual maintenance is available on both products - providing a very cost effective way of keeping these important security tools up to date. With this option you can download software updates - including new versions - free of charge.
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