We are a public school system and have approximately 450 email accounts. We process over 1,000,000 (yes, one million) messages per month! We have GFI MailEssentials installed on a front end server and GFI MailSecurity on the Exchange server. GFI MailEssentials sees the mail first and stops around 97% of the mail aimed at us before we even have to look at it. We let GFI MailEssentials move the mail to folders based on the rule which stopped it and then manually look through those three folders (Bayesian, Header, and Keyword) for false positives. Our false positive rate is presently about .03%. I recently completed the GFI MailSecurity install and just a few hours later we had already processed 1,400 messages (and stopped several viruses) through GFI MailSecurity. Even with GFI MailEssentials on the front end, about 10% of the mail that makes it to GFI MailSecurity still is quarantined for one reason or another. Ours is a small staff of three men supporting approximately 1,500 desktops and 25 servers. Thus, we have to have tools which enable us to work smarter, not necessarily harder. We have been with GFI for several years and the last versions of GFI MailEssentials (11) and GFI MailSecurity (9) have been real time savers for us.

Larry Jones
Lead Technician
Greeneville City Schools
Tennessee, US

September 2005