Mail essentials offers seamless integration with Exchange

London, UK, 8 November 1999 - GFI today launched version 3.0 of Mail essentials for Exchange, its leading e-mail security and management gateway that installs on existing mail servers. Version 3.0 offers tighter integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and allows user-based content checking.

Mail essentials 3.0 offers other enhanced features such as remote management and configuration, the ability to authorize more than one person to monitor and manage quarantined messages and a more user-friendly interface.

With the new version, integration with Microsoft Exchange Server is so advanced that Mail essentials can be configured directly from the Exchange Administrator, making it easier to install and set up.

"Mail essentials 3.0 offers Exchange users greater ease of use and convenience as its integration with Exchange Server is seamless," Nick Galea, president of GFI, explained.

"Besides, the new user-based content checking feature allows organizations to customize the filtering of email messages and attachments per user, granting greater flexibility and allowing better corporate email security and management. By building on the strengths of its predecessor, version 3.0 maximizes efficiency and facilitates use."

Microsoft Corporation welcomed the new version: "As Exchange becomes more prevalent in corporations, products like Mail essentials also become increasingly more important," said Dave Malcolm, group product manager for Exchange Server at Microsoft Corporation. "Microsoft and the Exchange Server team are pleased to have strong support from GFI and look forward to future products from this company."

The user-based content checking feature enables the administrator to set different filtering rules per user, making it more customizable. For added convenience, version 3.0 also allows more than one person to be specified as administrator to monitor and manage quarantined messages.

Additionally, administrators can approve or reject any quarantined email message from their HTML client. Once a message is quarantined due to dubious content, Mail essentials alerts the administrator and allows him/her to decide whether the email can be delivered or not by clicking on one of three buttons.

Mail essentials for Exchange 3.0 incorporates a new web monitor that permits remote management and configuration, and includes an easier interface that is more user-friendly.

Mail essentials - one of the first products to offer a server-based PGP encryption solution that allows users to send and receive automatically encoded/decoded messages - encompasses various important security and management features. Apart from content checking and quarantining, it includes advanced anti-spam measures, anti-virus features, company-wide disclaimers, autoreplies, tracking numbers, compression of all outbound mail, the compilation of reports on e-mail use, transparent operation for the user and administrator, and archiving all incoming and outgoing mail to an OBDC database.

An evaluation version can be downloaded from http://www.gfi.com.

Pricing of Mail essentials starts at $250 for a 10-user version.