Overview

This article provides the process to Enable or Disable MailEssentials Processing.

Process

Follow the instructions provided below:

Automatic method:

1. Navigate to Start > Programs > GFI MailEssentials > GFI MailEssentials Switchboard.

2. Click on the Troubleshooting tab.

3. Click Disable.

4. Click the Apply button.

Manual method:

• For Exchange 2003:

  1. Navigate to  ..\GFI\MailEssentials\

  2. Double-click stop_snks.cmd file for executing instructions to unbind the sinks.

     Note: Two sets of stop_snks.cmd will be present in the folders GFI\MailEssentials\Antispam and GFI\MailEssentials\EmailSecurity in the MailEssentials 2012).

  3. Navigate to Start > Run... and type services.msc

  4. Verify that IIS Admin, SMTP, and the World Wide Web Publishing Services have all restarted.

• For Exchange 2007 / 2010:

  1. Open the Exchange Management Shell.

  2. Run the following cmdlet:

     • Get-TransportAgent

  3. The status of the enabled GFI MailEssentials agents is displayed as follows:

     • GfiAsRtSubmittedAgent = true

     • GfiAsRtRoutedAgent = true

     • GfiAsSmtpAgent  = true 

     • GfiAsSmtp2Agent = true

     • Note: If running MailEssentials 2012, the GfiAv- agents (responsible for the EmailSecurity portion) will also be listed:

     • GfiAvSmtpAgent = true

     • GfiAvRoutingAgent = true

  4. Stop the GFI Transport Agents by running the following cmdlets:

     • Disable-TransportAgent GfiAsRtSubmittedAgent

     • Disable-TransportAgent GfiAsRtRoutedAgent

     • Disable-TransportAgent GfiAsSmtpAgent

     • Disable-TransportAgent GfiAsSmtp2Agent

     • Disable-TransportAgent GfiAvSmtpAgent

     • Disable-TransportAgent GfiAvRoutingAgent

       • NOTE:  You'll receive a confirmation on whether you want to perform the action, select Yes on each prompt.

  5. Once complete, re-run the commandlet Get-TransportAgent to get the registered transport agents and confirm that they are all now disabled.

  6. Restart the Microsoft Exchange Transport service.