New Features in GFI MailEssentials 10.1

Date: Oct 2004

1. Support for SPF: The Sender Policy Framework - As most of today’s spammers spoof email addresses, it is important to be able to check whether an email is genuine or if it has been sent from a forged sending address. This can be done via the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), which allows users to test whether a particular email originates from its claimed source. GFI MailEssentials is one of the first commercial anti-spam solutions to support this framework. Its new SPF module automatically checks whether the mail from a particular company was actually sent by its registered mail servers. For more on SPF, visit http://spf.pobox.com.
2. Eliminates directory harvesting: Spammers often try to guess recipient addresses by generating multiple random email addresses at a domain; they then send their spam mail to all those addresses. GFI MailEssentials checks the validity of ALL the email addresses included in the mail sent, via a query to Active Directory, and if they are not all valid, marks the mail as spam.
3. Fixes bugs present in GFI MailEssentials 10.