GFI MailEssentials for Windows

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Developer’s Description

By GFI Software

Add antispam and management features to your mail server.

GFI MailEssentials is an award-winning e-mail antivirus and anti-spam software solution for Exchange Server and other mail servers, which protects your network against e-mail-borne viruses and other malware threats and delivers a spam capture rate of over 99%. It filters out spam e-mail, phishing scams and viruses through various security layers, including up to five antivirus scanning engines and multiple anti-spam filtering technologies - such as two frequently updated anti-spam engines that require no tweaking, IP reputation filtering, greylisting, directory harvesting attack protection and more. It is managed via an integrated web-based configuration and management console and dashboard. GFI MailEssentials also adds various e-mail management tools to your mail server, including e-mail disclaimers, e-mail monitoring and redirecting based on custom rules, e-mail reporting, list server, server-based auto replies and POP3 downloading.

GFI MailEssentials for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: March 22, 2017

Latest update: March 22, 2017

Version: 20.0.4837

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 7
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows Server
Windows 8
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 16,025

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

3.2/5

5 User Votes

What happened to this company?
DeadJimDecember 20, 2014
Pros
I admit - the product does filter spam
Cons
Worst customer/billing/technical/sales support I've experienced in over a decade
Summary
What happened to this company? 8, maybe 10 years ago I couldn't live without them - but now it really feels like the company is being run from somebody's basement. I signed up for a trial spam filter service (Redirecting my MX info to their machines, allowing 'clean' e-mail through to mine). Worked well, and I was happy with what I saw but the annual pricing didn't make fiscal sense. I declined to purchase their product and reset DNS entries. That's when the invoices began - the highlight of which was when they sent me an e-mail requesting my invoice # to 'update their records'. Now I get an invoice, every month and impotent threats to send me to collections - irrespective of how many times I inform them that I never signed up for anything beyond trial. It's more sad than annoying, really. I can't say I can recommend this company anymore - their products may work, but that company is broken.
Do not use this product!
SupermanTBAugust 7, 2013
Pros
Product is actually pretty good and works effectively. Also cost effective.
Cons
GFI service agreements can cause your service to be permanently disconnected despite being in good standing with their billing. Seriously!
Summary
Do not use this product! If you do, despite being in good standing with your bills, you can have your service permanently disconnected without notice of any kind! I'm the owner of an IT consulting company and I've been using this product heavily with many of my clients. One client has used the service for somewhere around 8-10 years. It used to be called Katharion before GFI purchased them. My clients are all in good standing from a billing perspective yet a few days ago, they had their service shut off without warning. The ultimate cause turned out to be a billing dispute between the reseller that sold us the service and his reseller. Very strange, but our reseller goes through another reseller before GFI. Due to this billing dispute, the top level reseller shut down all the accounts for our reseller, which included all of my clients. When I called GFI about this madness, I requested to have them bill my clients directly. Their response after much conversation was "we are not able to contract directly with customers who came to GFI from one of our partners (reseller), unless that partner (reseller) agrees to it". That a direct quote in an email from the folks at GFI. All my clients have paid their bills to our reseller. For whatever reason, these two resellers are having a billing spat and the top level reseller has decided not to release our domains to be billed by GFI directly. The wonderful folks at GFI refuse to do anything about it because this service agreement is in place. This service agreement is a major flaw in this product. The fact that GFI's agreements to not grant them authority to remove a client from their resellers/partners for any reason is absurd. My company is discontinuing use of all GFI products for fear of other service agreements that might be lurking. I'm literally still in shock that this could happen. DO USE THIS SERVICE!
An anti-spam solution for a really good price
scotthillsNovember 6, 2008
Pros
We?ve recently installed Gfi mailessentials and it?s been working well and filtering spam as it?s meant to. End users can help with the process by dragging any spam that does filter into their inbox to their spam folder.
Cons
It took a short while for us to ?train? the filter ? about 2 weeks or so ? so that did require some extra maintenance
Summary
Makes my job a lot easier too! This is the first Gfi product that I?ve tried but I?d definitely recommend it as a staple anti spam solution. It's a great solution.
good
nancysmith1816November 25, 2007
Pros
good
Cons
Summary
Very effective and easy to use
Steven.GoodmanMay 17, 2005
Pros
Server level filtering gives administrators complete control thanks to new features with GFI Mail Essentials version 11. This version is incredible! Complete customization for every service and you can now enter your own DNSBL server. Each service can also be arranged in priority. This software package from GFI has worked for me completely and is inexspensive.
Cons
No cons
Summary