A newbuild of GFI MailEssentials 12 (build 20080623) has been uploaded.

Changes within this service release include: NEW: Support for Microsoft Windows 2008 NEW: Support for IPv6 UPDATE: Modified executables to support Windows User Access Control (UAC)

This Beta release gives our customers the opportunity to perform acceptance or in-house testing of GFI MailEssentials in Windows 2008 environments before the final production release. As this build is currently a Beta, we discourage installations on live server environments. Installation requirements for GFI MailEssentials 12 Installing on Microsoft IIS SMTP (x86 only), Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, then Microsoft IIS with SMTP Service installed is required. If installing on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, one of the following combinations of Exchange 2007 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 Queu

This Beta release gives our customers the opportunity to perform acceptance or in-house testing of GFI MailEssentials in Windows 2008 environments before the final production release.

As this build is currently a Beta, we discourage installations on live server environments. Installation requirements for GFI MailEssentials 12 If installing on Microsoft IIS SMTP (x86 only), Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, then Microsoft IIS with SMTP Service installed is required. If installing on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, one of the following combinations of Exchange 2007 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 (M

A new service release of GFI MailEssentials 12 (20080508) has been uploaded.

Changes within this service release include: NEW: Processing of incoming delivery status notifications (including non-delivery reports) by anti-spam filters enabled by default on a clean install NEW: Keyword Checking, Bayesian, DNSRBL and SURBL will scan embedded emails within non-delivery reports for spam NEW: NewSenders option for blocking NDR Spam (Backscatter email) which is enabled by default. This new feature checks if the original email of the non-delivery report was actually sent through GFI MailEssentials. More information about this new feature and how to configure it can be found in the KB article

The GFI MailEssentials Spam URI Realtime Blocklist (SURBL) filter verifies that the Unified Resource Identifiers (URIs) found in the email are not known to be used in spam emails. The GFI MailEssentials SURBL filter performs DNS queries to the Spam URI Realtime Blocklists enabled in GFI MailEssentials, using the URIs found in the email message body.

SURBL requirements:

All the queries done by the SURBL filter are done using DNS. By default, GFI MailEssentials will perform the DNS queries against the DNS server configured on the local machine. You can configure GFI MailEssentials perform such DNS queries using an alternate DNS server. This can be done as follows: From the GFI MailEssentials configuration, right click on the Anti-Spam' node. Select Properties' -> DNS Server' tab. Select Use the following DNS Server'. Specify the DNS server to use. C

A new build of GFI MailEssentials (build 20080508) has been released, which includes all the updates released for the detection of NDR Spam. It is therefore recommended to upgrade to the latest build of GFI MailEssentials.

Issue encountered: Emails are not being processed by GFI MailEssentials. The GFI MailEssentials monitor displays Item Processed Unsuccessful for all the emails processed. Gene6 FTP Server is also running on the same machine as GFI MailEssentials More information: Gene6 FTP Server allows the administrator to configure the ftp server remotely. In order to do this, the Gene6 FTP Server configuration console connects to server on port 8021 when reading the configuration.

The same port is also used by GFI MailEssentials for inter-process communication. Solution: Please change the port number used by Gene6 FTP Server. This can be done from the Gene6 FTP Server Administrator -> connect to the FTP server -> Administration -> Properties -> Secure node -> IP binding. Remember also to change the settings of the connect

A new service release of GFI MailEssentials 12 (20080326) has been uploaded.

Changes within this service release include: UPDATE: On a clean install, DNS Blacklist is enabled by default UPDATE: Perimeter servers automatically discovered and configured upon installing UPDATE: Email from local domains are now being processed when moved to Bayesian folders FIXED: Local domains detected by installation are not written to the configuration FIXED: DNS Blacklistand IP Whitelist fail to detect correct perimeter if email passes through multiple perimeters FIXED: Issue in mail monitoring caused during lookup of group names FIXED: Keyword checking treating certain international characters as white-space delimiters FIXED: