New version release: GFI MailEssentials 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The information in this article applies to:
GFI MailEssentials 2010 for Exchange/SMTP
GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 14
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Article ID: KBID003862
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GFI MailEssentials version 2010 (build 20100507) has been released and is available for download.
New Features, updates and fixes in GFI MailEssentials 2010:
NEW: Greylist anti-spam filtering.
NEW: Quarantine spam and send .periodic emails to users with ability to release emails from quarantine.
NEW: Support for Active Directory fields in disclaimers.
NEW: Log rotation support for anti-spam log occurrence action.
NEW: Ability to exclude particular emails from being processed by disclaimers.
NEW: The Post Installation Wizard will be shown after performing a clean installation and will ask for DNS server, proxy server, inbound domains, perimeter servers and default action to use.
UPDATED: Implemented support for use of GFI MAX MailProtection\MailEdge perimeter servers, which can be enabled in the Anti-Spam Settings.
UPDATED: Changed error code returned when Directory Harvesting is processing at SMTP transmission level. Instead of returning the code “501 – Unrecognized parameter”, the code “550 – Mailbox unavailable” will be returned.
UPDATED: Improved speed of loading of dashboard.
UPDATED: Implemented text filtering for processed emails shown in dashboard, sorting of columns and use of logarithmic scale for graph showing blocked spam per spam filter.
UPDATED: Updated internal SpamRazer settings so as to trigger a set of additional checks which block certain emails previously not blocked by SpamRazer.
FIXED: On particular systems, the Auto Whitelist was not managing to flush emails to the Auto Whitelist database due to issue with calculation of interval.
FIXED: Issue which caused SpamRazer functionality to halt due to issue whilst updating SpamRazer engine data files.
FIXED: A handle leak in GFI MailEssentials Scan Engine has been fixed which was caused by the Anti-Phishing definitions file being locked out whilst updating.
FIXED: Implemented a change in the Anti-Phishing updating module to reduce the amount of CPU usage consumed during merging of downloaded updates.
FIXED: Increased the wait time for initialization of the GFI MailEssentials Legacy Attendant plug-ins since the short wait time was causing licensing to fail.
FIXED: Postmaster email address was not being processed by Whitelist functionality, thus whitelisting the postmaster email address would not work.
FIXED: Directory Harvesting was not accessing and using the values “Rfc822Mailbox” and “uid” from the Windows registry.
FIXED: Upgrading GFI MailEssentials on platforms with Microsoft Exchange 2007\2010 installed would cause manually specified perimeter SMTP servers to be removed from the list.
FIXED: Public folder training through web services was not working when GFI MailEssentials is installed on a gateway server.
FIXED: Message ID not being shown by dashboard when the email does not contain a subject.
FIXED: Emails with malformed MIME information which were downloaded through POP2Exchange were ending up in Badmail folder.
FIXED: Switchboard would hang when run on a server with Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010 when using the “Disable processing” functionality.
FIXED: Auto updater for Bayesian Analysis and Anti-Phishing kept using the proxy server even after disabling use of proxy server from configuration.
FIXED: List server password was visible in list email subjects and in Thread-topic header.
FIXED: Email addresses excluded from receiving digest still received digest if email was specified with upper case letters.
FIXED: License notifications where not being sent in UTF8 on Russian install of GFI MailEssentials.
FIXED: The forward to email action for spam was failing when processing an invalid MIME sender. When an invalid MIME sender is found, it is replaced by the administrator email address.
Installation requirements for GFI MailEssentials 2010:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and above.
If installing on Microsoft IIS SMTP (x86 \ x64) or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, then Microsoft IIS with SMTP Service installed is required.
If installing on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, one of the following combinations of Exchange 2007/2010 Server Roles must be present: Mailbox and Hub Transport or (ii) Hub Transport or (iii) Edge Transport.
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, must be installed. In case of Windows 2008, .NET framework v2.0 is installed by default.
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) must be installed. The installation detects if MSMQ is not installed and offers the option to automatically install it.
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 must be installed.
Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94274318-27c4-4d8d-9bc5-3e6484286b1f&DisplayLang=en To use the Quarantine functionality, the Microsoft IIS WWW service must be installed.
Download Locations:
If installing on Microsoft IIS SMTP (x86) or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, then you need to download the x86 version of the GFI MailEssentials 2010:
http://www.gfi.com/mailessentialsx86/download/ If installing on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or Microsoft IIS SMTP x64, then you need to download the x64 version of GFI MailEssentials 2010:
http://www.gfi.com/mailessentialsx64/download/