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GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP Version 11* [1]

GFI is a leading provider of network security, content security, and messaging software. Its product range includes GFI MailEssentials for Exchange and SMTP mail servers; which offers spam protection at server level and eliminates the need to install and update anti-spam software on each workstation.

GFI MailEssentials adds email management tools to your mail server, such as disclaimers, mail archiving and monitoring, Internet mail reporting, list server, server-based auto replies and POP3 downloading. It also offers a fast set-up and a high spam detection rate using Bayesian analysis and other methods, and the ability to automatically adapt to most email environments. Some new features in Version 11 include:

Instant view of emails from new senders
A New Senders feature has been added to provide users with an instant view of emails sent from people they never had previous (email) contact with. This helps users to better organize emails in their email client. If an email is not found to be spam by the GFI MailEssentials anti-spam modules and is also not on the whitelist, the New Senders module can move that email to a user's specified subfolder.

Enhanced verification of email addresses
GFI MailEssentials checks the validity of all the email addresses included in any mail sent, via a query either to Active Directory or to other email servers that support Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), for example, native Exchange 5.5

Set priorities for each anti-spam module
Administrators can now configure which method of capturing spam is to be given priority, and create their own hierarchical list. For example, you can choose to check all incoming mail firstly against whitelists, then Bayesian scanning, thirdly against custom DNS blacklists and so on. Administrators can also configure custom real-time blacklist (RBL) servers and multiple DNSRBL servers, add their own, and define the order of priority of servers to be checked.

Support for Spam URI Realtime Blocklist (SURBL) servers
GFI MailEssentials can now check email content also against multiple SURBL servers, by extracting links or domains from the message body and querying whether these are listed on public spam URL blacklists such as sc.surbl.org. You can find more information on SURBL at http://www.surbl.org.

GFI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has won the Microsoft Fusion (GEM) Packaged Application Partner of the Year award. GFI MailEssentials  pricing is highly competitive, with a 25-user package costing just US$350.  A trial version is also available at http://www.gfi.com/mes/.

 

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Sources:
[1]GFI Software @
http://www.gfi.com/news/en/mes11launch.htm

[2]DSL/Cable Webserver @

http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main
/sbs-remote-desktop-overview.html

[3]Fortune @

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/subs/columnist/0,15704,1067735,00.html


Remote Access [2]
Did you know you can work easily from home just about as fast as you can from the office? Remote access makes this possible. Remote access is the ability to access a computer or a network from a remote distance. Two common ways you can set up remote access are:

Remote desktop: Remote desktop is a feature in Windows XP Professional that allows a PC to be run remotely from another Windows PC, over any dial-up or LAN TCP/IP connection. With remote desktop, you will have full control over your PC just as if you were sitting in front of it. Remote desktop is based on Terminal Services which was included in Windows2000 Advanced Server. To learn more on how to set-up a remote desktop connection, just click on http://www.wown.com/j_helmig-
wxprmdtp.htm

Virtual Private Networks (VPN): A VPN provides you with secure remote access by using the public Internet as the data carrier. Here, you dial into the Internet using your ISP or a broadband connection, and the VPN software creates a "tunnel" so the data is encrypted and can only be accessed by an authorized system on the other end. You can learn more about VPNs by clicking on http://compnetworking.about.com
/od/vpn/l/aa010701a.htm

LATEST NEWS

Sony: PS3 - The Next Generation of Gaming

As reported by
Fortune magazine [3]: The PS3 is a digital entertainment hub, based on a new processor called Cell developed jointly by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.

Q: What is all the hype about?

The PS3 comes with a next-generation DVD player based on the Blu-ray technology, which offers several times the capacity of today's DVD discs. It also supports Sony's SACD (Super Audio CD) high-resolution music CD format, one of two would-be standards for high resolution audio.

Sony also uses Bluetooth wireless networking to connect up to seven controllers. The PS3 has a slot for a removable hard drive as well as future broadband capabilities like streaming Sony music, Sony movies, and Sony television shows directly to consumers.

It will be fully backward-compatible with PS2 and original PS1 games, and is due to go on sale in Spring 2006.

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