Problem The GFI MailEssentials Scan Serivce (GFIScanS.exe) crasheswith faulting moduleWinspamcatcher.dll. Solution Disable the GFI MailEssentials Scan Service and stop it Stop all other GFI MailEssentials services Back up the SpamRazer data folder (<INSTALLDIRECTORY>SpamScoreCore) Delete the rule (sc*.bin; sc1.bin, sc2aj5ac49e0.bin.tmp, etc) files from the SpamRazer data folder (almost all files except spamcatcher.conf, productid, rkd) Enable the GFI MailEssentials Scan Serviceand start all GFI MailEssentials services Update the SpamRazer module Cause One of the SpamRazer rule files is corrupted. By deleting these files, the auto update will recreate all the rule files.

GFI MailEssentials 2010 Service Release 4 (build 20110812) has been released and is available for download. Changes in this release include: FIXED: The SPF filter was crashing when processing the SPF records of domains whose IPv6 records contained more than a specific number of IP addresses Download Location: The latest version of GFI MailEssentials 2010 can be downloaded from http://www.gfi.com/downloads/mirrors.aspx?pid=me.

GFI MailEssentials 2010 Service Release 3 (build 20110613) has been released and is available for download. Changes in this release include: FIXED: The SPF filter was crashing when processing the SPF records of certain domains. The crash was being caused by incorrect handling of data within the record. FIXED: The SpamRazer spam filter was crashing due to a synchronization issue between the filtering and updating functionality of the module. FIXED: The GFI MailEssentials Scan Engine crashed during processing of the BATV part of the envelop sender. FIXED: Certain crashes in the GFI MailEssentials Scan Engine were not being recovered from successfully, and these were leading to queuing issues since GFI MailEssentials would stop processing emails. FIXED: Temporary files used for public folder training we

You can install both products on Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 / 2008 / 2011. However in view of the fact that Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) may require a large amount of RAM when all the Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) components are installed,make sure there is theminimum required amountof RAM available for MailEssentials in such situations. To avoid loading your Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS)server you might want to install the GFI products on a separate Windows 2003 Server or higher to act as a Gateway. NOTE: Microsoft SBS 2011 is supported from GFI MailEssentials 2010 SR2 and later only.

GFI MailEssentials 2010 Service Release 2 (build 20110131) has been released and is available for download. IMPORTANT: As of this release, the Mail Archiving feature in GFI MailEssentials is being phased out and by default will only be available in upgraded installations. In new installations, the Mail Archiving can be enabled through a registry setting. For more information, please refer to the following knowledgebase article http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003989. Changes in this release include: NEW: Introduced support in configuration for IP ranges specified using CIDR. NEW: Quarantine web console accessible by end users for searching their own quarantined emails. NEW: Ability for administrators and end users to approve and whitelist quarantine emails.

The spam and quarantine digests are emails sent on a regular interval containing information & listing of spam or quarantined emails. By default, this digest's sender email is set as the administrator email configured in GFI MailEssentials. This email address can be overridden so as to specify an alternate email address. To edit the postmaster email address of a digest email, browse to the GFI MailEssentials folder, open the Data folder and open the file product.config in a text editor. One of the lines within the product.config file is the following: <add key="DigestPostmaster" value=""/> To specify an alternate postmaster, specify the email address as shown in the example below: <add key="DigestPostmaster" value="administrator@domain.com"/> Oncethe postmaster email address is specified, save and close the file and restart the GFI MailEssentials Managed Attendant service.

The GFI MailEssentials Mail Archiving feature is being phased out, and as of the next major release, this feature will be completely unavailable. In GFI MailEssentials 2010 Service Release 2, this feature is not visible in the configuration. The only case where this feature would still be visible is if an upgrade is made over an older build of GFI MailEssentials which had the Mail Archiving feature enabled. If the Mail Archiving feature needs to be used and its node is not visible in the configuration, follow the steps below to enable the Mail Archiving node in the configuration: Close the GFI MailEssentials configuration Open the registry editor by running regedit.exe Browse to the MailEssentials registry key

32 bit: HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREGFIME15

64bit: HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeGFIME15

Open the Config key Change the value

The following AD fields can be used in the MailEssentials Disclaimers: Initials First Name Last Name Display Name Job Title Manager Department Office Company Web Page Email Telephone Number Telephone Home Telephone Mobile Telephone Page Telephone Fax Telephone IP Phone P.O. Box Street City State / Province Country / Region Zip / Postal Code