May 5th, 2012New antivirus engine – GFI VIPRE:
· GFI MailEssentials 2012 ships with GFI VIPRE as one of the antivirus engines bundled in the product out of the box.
· GFI VIPRE features MX-V, a malware analysis technology which rapidly analyzes potential malware by observing its behavior in a virtual environment for zero-day threat detection.
Advanced content filtering:
· GFI MailEssentials includesadvanced user-based content filtering rules that can be used for flexible and granular filtering on any part of the email message, including message headers, subject, body, attachment name and attachment content.
· Administrators can use one of the pre-defined content filtering rules to block emails with credit card numbers or social security numbers.
· Advanced users can also create advanced filtering rules matching a regular expression (regex), allowing them to block emails based on patterns which they define, which is much more powerful than simple keyword checking.
· Integrated web-based configuration and management console for anti-spam and email security
· GFI MailEssentials now features a web based configuration and management console from where one can manage all anti-spam and email security functionality in the product, including its spam and malware quarantine.
· The email management features in GFI MailEssentials 2010 and prior versions have been carried forward in GFI MailEssentials 2012 with an MMC user interface with which the users of such versions are familiar.
Integrated web based reporting:
· GFI MailEssentials ships with integrated reporting capabilities which form part of its web-based user interface, enabling administrators to generate reports on the emails being sent and received by their organization. The reports are customizable through various options included in the reporting component.
Access control:
· Administrators can assign permissions to other users to review quarantined emails, receive notifications for newly quarantined emails via RSS feeds or generate reports. This can be done directly from the product’s web-based user interface.
Availability:
GFI MailEssentials 2012 is now available in three editions:
· UnifiedProtection Edition: Combines anti-spam and email security functionality into one offering for comprehensive email protection.
· Anti-spam Edition: An anti-spam solution for Exchange/SMTP/Lotus which features a spam capture rate of over 99%, with technology to dramatically reduce false positives.
· EmailSecurity Edition: Server-based email security with up to five antivirus engines, Trojan and executable scanning, email exploit detection and HTML sanitization for unique protection.
· Email management, content filtering and attachment filtering features are included in all editions.
Upgrading from GFI MailEssentials 2010, GFI MailSecurity 2011 or GFI MailDefense Suite:
· GFI MailEssentials 2012 supports in-place upgrades and preservation of settings for a number of previous versions of GFI MailEssentials and GFI MailSecurity.
May 20th, 2010Greylisting:
· This feature is an anti-spam technique used to identify spam emails originating from non-RFC compliant mail servers (which are often utilized by spammers). For each new SMTP transmission, GFI MailEssentials records the sender, recipient and sending mail server’s IP address (aka triplet) and rejects any emails with a temporary failure message. Compliant email servers try and resend the message after a few minutes – this causes their triplet to be confirmed and connections with the same triplet are no longer rejected. Non-compliant mail servers do not try to resend the message.
Spam Quarantining:
· The administrator can select to quarantine spam emails. Spam emails are stored in a database and are automatically deleted after a pre-defined period of time. The administrator can also select to send a spam digest with information on quarantined emails. From the spam digest, users can review their spam emails, and approve them as required. The administrator is allowed full access to the quarantined emails.
Auto-log rotation:
· Administrators can select to log occurrences (such as blocked or whitelisted mail) and configure to start a new log file after a pre-defined period of time or at a specific size.
Filtering and sorting of logging:
· Dashboard entries can be filtered; this makes it very easy to locate logging for a particular email.
Tailored Disclaimers:
· User-specific information can now be retrieved from Active Directory to personalize the disclaimer per sender.
Context-sensitive help:
· Context-sensitive help has now been added in the GFI MailEssentials configuration.
December 3rd, 2009· NEW: Implemented support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, which involved installing
emoval of agents and supporting use of Exchange Web Services for performing public folder training and for moving spam to Microsoft Exchange mailboxes.* FIXED: The filename u
· FIXED: On upgrading from an older build, the installation was copying the AWI and BSW folders to the default path instead of copying the folders to the folder in which GFI MailEssentials was installed. •FIXED: Certain spam emails contained sending server
November 18th, 2009· NEW: Introduced support for Microsoft Exchange 2010
· FIXED: File saved by 'Save to Disk' action is not logged in reporting database
· FIXED: Number of counted users not being displayed in licensing dialog
· FIXED: Crash occurring in Mail Monitor module due to quotes in sender
ecipient address
· FIXED: When WhitelistBlacklist lists are exported, the exported entries are also re-written in database, causing number of entries to double
· FIXED: X-header which enables GFI MailArchiver to identify spam emails blocked by GFI MailEssentials is not being written
November 11th, 2009· FIXED: Resolving of perimeter server MX IP addresses fails if domain MX points to a CNAME record. On 32bit systems, this causes the installation to hang during the Welcome screen. On Microsoft Exchange 2007, this issue affects the post install wizard
· FIXED: When installing on Microsoft Exchange 2007, the installation copies certain files required by the post install wizard to the default GFI MailEssentials folder instead of the selected folder, causing the post install wizard to fail
November 6th, 2009· FIXED: Emails get stuck in the SMTP queue after being processed by GFI MailEssentials
· FIXED: Emails looping between GFI MailSecurity and GFI MailEssentials when forward to email action is used in GFI MailEssentials
· FIXED: Reduction in spam capture by SpamRazer, caused by failed execution of certain DNS based checks performed by the engine
· FIXED: Crash of Synch agent service when a port other than the default port is used
· FIXED: Crash of SURBL module caused by emails containing URI which is longer than 2048 characters
· FIXED: Dot stuffing performed whilst processing of emails can corrupt attachments
· FIXED: Emails downloaded through POP2Exchange are not being delivered to recipients. This happens due to an issue in the handling of FromTo header entries containing text in () brackets
· FIXED: If selecting only Move to Inbox and Block Reason actions for any anti-spam filter, the block reason is not added to the blocked email
· FIXED: Directory Harvesting at SMTP level does not block emails containing at least 1 remote recipient (recipient whose domain is not listed in the GFI MailEssentials inbound domains list). Due to this issue, GFI MailEssentials doesn’t block certain casin
· FIXED: Crash caused in Whitelist, Blacklist and Mail Monitoring modules when processing emails whose recipients contain multiple empty spaces in FromTo header
· FIXED: A minor memory leak affecting the GFI MailEssentials Scan Engine service which is caused by the module which routes emails to list server (even when list server is not used)
· FIXED: The detection of perimeter servers which is performed during installation fails, causing the perimeter server option to be set but having list of perimeters not populated
· FIXED: If multiple perimeter servers are identified and the local server’s IP is one of the IP addresses, it is not included in the perimeter servers list
· FIXED: DisclaimersGeneral Settings user selection button not displaying user selection dialog
· FIXED: On Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the disclaimer Sender Name value would be set using the Sender Email instead
· FIXED: Downloading of SpamRazer updates fails
· FIXED: Save to disk action does not remove characters which cannot be written as part of the filename, causing action to fail
· FIXED: Error reported when enablingdisabling tracing in Switchboard
· FIXED: Updated the Send Fake NDR action so as to support entering a different postmaster email address
August 28th, 2009· NEW: Ability to install GFI MailEssentials in Russian
· NEW: Support for processing of emails containing text in any language (Unicode support)
· NEW: Common proxy server used by Bayesian, SpamRazer and Anti-Phishing updating functionality
· NEW: Number of consecutive failures before auto-updaters send email notification
· NEW: Anti-Spam Actions are now queued and executed by a separate module (GFI MailEssentials Managed Attendant) so as to reduce engine processing time
· UPDATE: Incremental search and improved speed of loading of Whitelist and Blacklist. Also Improved speed of loading keyword lists
· UPDATE: Parallel processing of multiple blacklists in DNS Blacklist spam filter
· UPDATE: Improved configuration user interface (tree structure, dialogs layout, grouping of spam filters & new nodes for Anti-Spam Filters Priority, Anti-Spam Settings and General Settings)
· UPDATE: Ability to select multiple actions to perform when spam email is blocked
· UPDATE: Added GFI MailEssentials Switchboard, which can be used to startstop processing of emails by GFI MailEssentials, enabledisable debug logging and enabledisable copying of emails pre & post MailEssentials processing (sinksource archives)
· UPDATE: Increased the limit of the number of IP addresses that can be processed from an SPF record from 5 IP addresses to 10
· FIXED: SMTP sink will now reject the email with a 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address instead of just dropping the connection
· FIXED: List Server will remove the “prvs==” part of emails containing BATV (Bounce Address Tag Validation). This fixes the issue of emails containing BATV not being recognized as subscribed addresses
· FIXED: Spam Digest not sending digest email when number of spam to show in spam list is over 15,000
· FIXED: WebDAV public folder training creates the GFI MailEssentials public folders using English names even though the product is installed in a non-English language
· FIXED: Emails with ‘+’ in subject are not processed by public folder training
· FIXED: Removed “.” from name of two public folders for German language, since moving emails to these folders did not work
· FIXED: ORCPT not being handled by SMTP sink
July 30th, 2009· FIXED: Handle leak caused by Spam Digest in GFI MailEssentials Managed Attendant service
· FIXED: Database errors produced by GFI MailEssentials Legacy Attendant module
· FIXED: Disclaimer Recipient nameemail tags not being set correctly
· FIXED: Handle leak in spam filtering engine
· FIXED: Switchboard not enablingdisabling sinks when GFI MailEssentials is installed on a 64bit IIS platform
· FIXED: Switchboard not opening on certain platforms
· FIXED: Troubleshooter crashes if run on Microsoft Windows 2008
· FIXED: Global action ‘Save to disk’ does not save emails to specified folder
· FIXED: GFI MailEssentials Managed Attendant crash due to processing of large number of spam digest recipients
· FIXED: Crash in GFI MailEssentials Legacy Attendant service due to SpamRazer auto-updating module
· FIXED: List Server will remove the “prvs==” part of emails containing BATV (Bounce Address Tag Validation). This fixes the issue of emails containing BATV not being recognized as subscribed addresses
· FIXED: Single quotes not supported in email addresses processed by List Server, Header Checking and Auto Replies
· FIXED: Dashboard program menu entries do not work on certain platforms
· UPDATE: Implemented options in disclaimer which are used when disclaimer cannot be displayed in character set of email body
August 29th, 2008· NEW: Support for Directory Harvesting at SMTP protocol sink level. The filtering level of Directory Harvesting is configurable in the order of the spam filters
· UPDATE: Implemented “Download Updates Now” button for SpamRazer updates
· UPDATE: SpamRazer now supports use of alternate DNS in the GFI MailEssentials DNS Server settings
· FIXED: Email containing ‘@’ in display name would not be delivered through POP2Exchange
· FIXED: Support for upgrade from GFI MailEssentials 12
June 3rd, 2008· NEW: Support for Microsoft Windows 2008
· FIXED: MSMQ detection and installation not working on Microsoft Windows 2008
· FIXED: Bayesian Analysis Wizard crash occurring on Microsoft Windows 2008
· FIXED: POP2Exchange does not always correctly interpret the FOR clause in received header lines
· FIXED: Disclaimer not put in email when character set of body part is Unicode-1-1-utf-7
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