GFI MailEssentials
The first of the "smart" applications is the product provided by GFI with its Bayesian engine. Excitingly, when we started the initial static tests and sent the messages through it was only misidentifying one or two spam messages as opposed to the tens that the other applications were letting through. It looked like GFI were going to run away with the gong by miles. That was until we started counting up the false positives, and very scarily the application started canning some legitimate e-mails and not just legitimate newsletters also but normal e-mail messages. So unfortunately, when the scoring system was applied to the results this package took a big hit due to the fact that it blocked more legit e-mails than the other packages. Total score is 383 points.
The configuration and monitoring for the GFI application are contained in two separate applications, which is similar to both the NetIQ and SurfControl applications. The admin console is quite logical, and makes a difficult task easier to complete particularly when it comes to configuring quite complex rules.
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| Product: | GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP V9.0 Beta 1 |
| Price: | AU$425 for up to 25 mailboxes, AU$1754.50 for unlimited mailboxes; freeware version available |
| Vendor: | GFI Software |
| Phone: | 1800 225 543 |
| Web: | www.gfi.com |
| Interoperability: |
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Supports Windows 2000 or XP Pro with any SMTP mail server. |
| Futureproofing: |
Spam collection as tested was very good but subject to too many false positives. |
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Freeware version is excellent value if you don't need support. Price for unlimited mailboxes is also very good. |
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No support for freeware version; 12 months included in paid version. |
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I am interested in knowing how the market is for spam filters in Australia, I work for FrontBridge Technologies (in Marina Del Rey, California, U.S.A.) and I recently followed up on an inquiry on us from a Sydney based company. As we spoke they mentioned that there are no perimeter based solutions doing business in Australia like ours.
Just curious and thought the author of this article might like to discuss.