1	About GFI MailEssentials

1.1	Introduction

GFI MailEssentials is a server-based anti-spam solution that provides key corporate email anti-spam features for your mail server. Installed as an add-on to your mail server, GFI MailEssentials is completely transparent to users, with no additional user training required.

The key features of this solution are:

•	Server-based anti-spam - Spam protection is an essential component of your network’s security strategy. GFI MailEssentials offers advanced anti-spam filters which include blacklist/whitelist, Bayesian filtering, keyword checking, and header analysis.

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Company-wide disclaimer/footer text - Companies are responsible for the content of their employees' email messages. GFI MailEssentials enables the automatic addition of disclaimers on top or the bottom of an email, together with fields/variables that personalize the disclaimer according to the recipient.

•	Email archival to database – Archiving email is not only good practice but also may be a legal requirement. GFI MailEssentials provides the facility to archive all inbound and outbound email.

•	Reporting – GFI Mail Essentials can produce various useful reports on email usage and anti spam operations.

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Personalized auto-replies with tracking number - More than just an 'out of office' replies, auto-replies enable customers to know that their email has been received and that their request is being handled. Assign a unique tracking number to each reply to give your customers and employees an easy point of reference.

•	POP3 downloader – Smaller businesses may not have the necessary facilities to use SMTP based email. GFI MailEssentials includes a utility that can forward and distribute email from POP3 mailboxes to mailboxes on the mail server.

•	Email monitoring – Central information stores are typically easier to manage than distributed information. GFI MailEssentials enables sending of email copies to a central store of email communications of a particular person or department.

For more information on how GFI MailEssentials filters emails for inbound and outbound emails, refer to Appendix 1 – How does spam filtering work in this manual.