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I will tell you why later in this article.ДЇor both deployment methods you MUST disable Anti Virus software from scanning the GFI MailEssentials & IIS directories.ДЇirst, we need to download a trial version of GFI MailEssentials from the GFI website.

GFI MailEssentials must be the first server to receive e-mails.

Microsoft Exchange 4, 5, 5.5, 2000 oder 2003, Lotus Notes 4.5 and higher, or an SMTP/POP3 mail server.IIS5 SMTP service installed and running as an SMTP relay to your mail server.

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Windows 2000/XP Professional (only up to 10 inbound SMTP connections simultaneously), Windows 2000/2003 Server or Advanced/Enterprise Server.

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GFI recommends the following when you install GFI MailEssentials on a separate machine:

Microsoft XML core service (when you want to use the GFI MailEssentials reporter).

Windows 2000/2003 Server or Advanced/Enterprise Server.

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In this raffle you can win a GFI MailEssentials license for 200 users, valued $2300USD. You can learn more about this product by reading the Administrator Guide or by watching GFIвЂ™s helpful YouTube videos. In this installment we learned the basic mechanics of GFI MailEssentials from installation, configuration, and user experience viewpoints. GFI MailEssentials Outlook inbox Conclusion ^ The GFI Outlook add-in gives users great control over the blacklisting and whitelisting of suspected spam e-mail messages. The following screenshot shows the end-userвЂ™s view of the additional GFI MailEssentials Inbox subfolders. The GFI MailEssentials administrator determines during product installation and/or from within the administration Web site whether suspected spam messages are captured to quarantine or delivered to your users.ДЄs you can see in the following screenshot, the default action is to deliver suspected spam e-mail messages to a subfolder of your usersвЂ™ Outlook Inbox. Generating GFI MailEssentials reports End user experience ^ As you can observe in the following figure, the pre-built reports include the following: To that point, GFI MailEssentials offers several built-in report templates to give us (and our bosses) rich insight into the types of malware received by your organization. As you can see in the following screen capture, the GFI MailEssentials Quarantine node enables us to report on detected malware by specifying multiple criteria, including date range and recipient.ДЄs expected, we can manually approve or permanently delete items that have been captured to the MailEssentials quarantine. With such rich and robust anti-malware scanning capability, systems administrators need equally rich and robust tools for managing the quarantine. Moreover, the anti-spam module consists of the following subcomponents: In the EmailSecurity node, we can manage subscriptions and scan behavior of up to five different virus scanning engines:

You will recall from part 1 of this review that a multi-engine scanning approach is the chief differentiator between GFI MailEssentials and its competition. This navigation structure is shown in the following exhibit:

The main Dashboard interface is depicted in the following figure:Д«esides the Dashboard, which is intended to provide administrators with вЂњat a glanceвЂќ information concerning the status of GFI MailEssentials services and quarantine statistics, the left-hand navigation menu provides us with one-click access to all product components. The vast majority of GFI MailEssentials administration is performed from the Administration Web site, which can be started from the MailEssentials Configuration shortcut in your Start menu. Troubleshooter: A wizard that walks you through the creation of a GFI support incident.Switchboard: A Windows Control Panel applet with which you can customize global service/application behaviors.MailEssentials Configuration: A link to the MailEssentials administration Web site.E-mail Management Tools: MMC console from which you can manage HTML disclaimers, auto-replies, and the like.Anti Spam Synchronization Agent: MMC console from which you can synchronize anti-spam metadata among multiple servers.Administrator Guide: A link to a local copy of the product documentation.Configure IIS to allow the ASP.NET Web service extensionsДЄfter installation, you will see several new shortcuts in your serverвЂ™s Start menu.Install the IIS Web Server and SMTP server roles.

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