GFI MAX MAIL & SPAM PROTECTION

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GFI MAX MAIL & SPAM PROTECTION 

March 19, 2010 at 2:43 pm | In GFI MailProtect | Leave a Comment
Tags: GFI, GFI MAX MailProtect, Mail Protection, Spam Protection

I had the chance to get involved in another GFI security product, this time was the turn for the GFI MAX MailProtection. This product represents a cloud service model for mail protection against spam, viruses and other threats.

Due to a significant spam and malware menaces increase in the last few months, having a network protection layer introduced in your mail platform could translate in saving tons of hours and headache for your IT team.

Some of the features included in GFI MAX MailProtection are:

• Works with any mail platform. It doesn’t matter if you have Exchange, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra, or any other SMTP Server; MailProtection fits in.
• Inbound and outbound protection. Not only protect from getting threats into your organization, you can also be aware for possible “zombies” inside.
• Individual Mail Quarantines. Each user handles their own quarantine so they can check constantly the spam filter. Also you can configure a mail digest to be sent periodically.
• Administration delegation. You can set special permissions to users so they can administrate their own mailboxes security (I know, not a good idea in most cases). 

Now, let’s take a deeper look about the solution.

Installation

In case you’ve missed it, this is a cloud service offered by GFI, meaning that you don’t need to set up any server in your platform; you just need to register and you’ll receive a mail with all the necessary information:

Setting Up GFI MAX MailProtection

Ok, with the info you received in the mail you pretty much have all what it takes to set up the product. Let’s take a quick look.

After you enter your credentials, and select the “Add a new domain”, the process is quite simple. I’m using an alternative domain “aalvarez.com.ar”.

After you successfully added the domain, to start working with users you can add them manually or synchronize the list using an LDAP query for Active Directory or openLDAP, or simply taking the data from a database.

In my case, I’m going to add them manually. Using the format“@aalvarez.com.ar|”