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Patrizia -> Version and Build Information (29.Dec.2005 10:11:33 AM)

NOTE: This topic contains information regarding the changes within the various builds of the GFI MailEssentials.
The first entry will contain information about the latest build of GFI MailEssentials, while the posts below contain information regarding previous builds of the product.






Latest version of GFI MailEssentials:-  Version 14 Service Release 1

Latest Service Release of GFI MailEssentials:-  20081024






New features / updates inluded in GFI MailEssentials 14 Service Release 1 build 20081024 include:


  • NEW: Added blocked spam listing option for Recipient Spam Digest.
  • NEW: Column widths of dashboard MTA Logging list are retained on closing and re-opening dashboard.
  • NEW: Added report sorting based on SpamRazer column.
  • FIXED: Failed retrieval of IP addresses within e-mail's received lines, when IP addresses are enclosed in square brackets.
  • FIXED: Crash occurring when SpamRazer updates are being downloaded and GFI MailEssentials Legacy Attendant Service is stopped.
  • FIXED: Dashboard crash caused by unhandled exception.
  • FIXED: Dashboard sometimes doesn't display all entries in the MTA Logging list.
  • FIXED: When database is changed, statistics aren't updated properly in dashboard.
  • FIXED: Recipient Spam Digest sends emails to recipients of emails blocked by directory harvesting (non-existing users)
  • FIXED: Spam Digest fails to send digest email to email addresses which contain a single quote in the address.
  • FIXED: Memory leak in GFI MailEssentials Managed Attendant Service, which derived from Spam Digest functionality.
  • FIXED: Changing the SMTP binding settings will not register the SMTP sink under the newly selected virtual server(s).
  • FIXED: Under certain conditions, Directory Harvesting fails to block email when running at SMP filter level.
  • FIXED: On upgrading from GFI MailEssentials 12, the 'Default Settings' button in the Spam Ordering dialog is always disabled.






Details about the release build of GFI MailEssentials 14 SR1 can be found in the following KB articles:
Release details: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003436
Getting started on GFI MailEssentials 14: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003407






The latest version of GFI MailEssentials can be downloaded from: http://www.gfi.com/pages/files.htm



Patrizia -> GFI MailEssentials 12 (26.May2006 11:26:14 AM)

What's new in GFI MailEssentials 12
  • Protection against the menace of phishing emails: The new version 12 of GFI MailEssentials provides the ability to detect and block threats posed by phishing emails through its Phishing URI Realtime Blocklist (PURBL). The GFI MailEssentials PURBL detects phishing emails by comparing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) present in the email to a database of URIs which are known to be used in phishing attacks, and also by looking for typical phishing keywords in the URIs.

  • Ability to synchronize anti-spam data between multiple installations: Using the new version 12, spam and whitelist data of all installations can be synchronized. This will ensure that all installations are blocking as much spam as possible with the least amount of false positives. Click here to read more about this new feature.

  • Improved whitelist features: GFI MailEssentials 12 provides the ability to whitelist based on SMTP TO/FROM and not just MIME TO/FROM. This will result in less false positives.



Patrizia -> GFI MailEssentials 12 build 20060308 (11.Jul.2006 3:14:19 AM)

Changes within GFI MailEssentials build 20050308 include: 

  • NEW: Added new anti-phishing technology which downloads updates at regular, configurable intervals.
  • NEW: Added a new anti-phishing configuration tab where the administrator can add keywords for which to check in URIs.
  • NEW: Added command line processing functionality to the 'Configuration Import/Export Tool'.
  • FIXED: The SPF wasn't excluding the IPs found in the Perimeter SMTP Servers List.
  • FIXED: Email loop condition that can occur between GFI MailEssentials and the GFI MailSecurity quarantine when both products are installed on the same machine.
  • FIXED: In some cases the Exchange user counting was failing.
  • FIXED: In the anti-phishing feature no reason was being appended to the subject when the email is caught due to phishing keywords.
  • UPDATED: Considerable user manual updates.
Further information can be found at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID002590



Patrizia -> GFI MailEssentials build 20060628 (23.Jan.2007 3:11:22 AM)

Changes within GFI MailEssentials builf 20060628 include:
  • NEW: GFI MailEssentials 12 is now available in German.
  • NEW: Improved detection of specific types of spam emails making use of HTML/CSS to evade detection.
  • FIXED: Failure to process particular emails when the "Check for remote images" is enabled.
  • FIXED: Failure to send NDRs when the "Generate Non Delivery Report" anti-spam option is enabled.
  • FIXED: Performance optimizations have been made to the GFI MailEssentials Anti-Phishing module.
  • FIXED: The GFI MailEssentials Enterprise Transfer Service was defaulting to port 8080 for data transfer whenever anything but port 80 was being configured.
  • FIXED: The GFI MailEssentials Reporter fails to generate user usage statistics (inbound/outbound/composite) and domain usage statistics when installed on Windows 2000.
  • FIXED: The anti-spam rules report shows incomplete data when run for a specific email address.
  • FIXED: Report generated on a date range displays incorrect date range in report header when SQL Server is used as backend database for reporting data.

Further information can be found at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID002702



Patrizia -> GFI MailEssentials build 20070112 (13.Jul.2007 3:27:04 AM)

Changes within GFI MailEssentials build 20070112 include: 

  • NEW: Improved detection of image spam by the GFI MailEssentials Bayesian filter (Anti-spam -> Bayesian Analysis).
  • NEW: Botnet/Zombie Check added to the DNS Blacklists feature (Anti-spam -> DNS Blacklists). This check blocks emails from dynamic IPs as listed on sorbs.net, increasing detection rates for image spam generated by botnets.
  • FIXED: When GFI MailEssentials is installed to a directory whose path contains a dot, for example "C:\Program Files\GFI\Mail.Essentials", the Anti-spam Synchronization Agent will fail to upload the anti-spam files.
  • FIXED: When GFI MailEssentials is installed on a server whose name contains an underscore, for example "machine_one.domain.com", the Anti-spam Synchronization Agent will fail to merge the anti-spam files.
  • FIXED: The GFI MailEssentials Configuration and Anti-spam Synchronization Agent Configuration MMC user interface consoles now accept server names containing an underscore, such as "machine_one.domain.com", as valid.
  • FIXED: When GFI MailEssentials is installed on a cluster environment, the Anti-spam Synchronization Agent treats the clustered machines as separate machines on the network.
  • FIXED: The GFI MailEssentials Reporter fails to generate User Usage Statistics Reports (Inbound/Outbound/Composite) and Domain Usage Statistics Reports. This issue manifested itself only if the backend reporting database is a Microsoft SQL Server database and the total size of emails received or sent by an individual user or domain is more than 2147483648 bytes for the particular date range selected.
  • FIXED: Non Delivery Reports were not being generated when the "Generate Non Delivery Report (NDR)" anti-spam option was being enabled on a German installation of GFI MailEssentials.

Further Information can be found at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID002959 



Patrizia -> GFI MailEssentials build 20070707 (20.Aug.2007 11:08:37 AM)

Changes within GFI MailEssentials build 20070707 include:

  • NEW: Check for PDF Spam added to the GFI MailEssentials Header Checking filter (Anti-Spam -> Header Checking).

Further information about this build can be found at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003114 



Patrizia -> GFI MailEssentials build 20070810 (11.Oct.2007 8:16:09 AM)

Changes within GFI MailEssentials build 20070810 include:
  • UPDATE: Update in spam module to improve detection of attachment spam. More information on this update can be found in the knowledge base article: KBID003142

Further information can be found at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003143  



Patrizia -> GFI MailEssentials build 20071005 (6.Dec.2007 9:27:16 AM)

Changes within build 20071005 include:

  • NEW: Introduced support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Please note that only the 64-bit production version of Exchange 2007 is supported -- the 32-bit test version is not supported.
  • UPDATE: Public Folder Scanning with Exchange Server 2007 will only be available via WebDAV (newly introduced for this purpose). Public Folder Scanning through EXOLEDB or IMAP will not be supported with Exchange Server 2007.
  • UPDATE: Introduction of post-installation wizard, shown when installing on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
  • UPDATE: Bayesian Analysis Wizard updated to support Microsoft Exchange 2007 through WebDAV.
  • UPDATE: Optimizations have been made to the slave import process.
  • UPDATE: Bayesian spam filter has been updated for improved detection of attachment spam.
  • FIXED: Fixed Mail Monitoring failures caused when using Active Directory users which are members in a large number of groups.
  • FIXED: Prolonged 100% CPU usage by the GFI MailEssentials Anti-spam Synchronization Agent (mestrxsvc.exe) during the merge process.
  • FIXED: When the Tracking Number option of the Auto-Replies feature is enabled, upper case characters in the subject of an e-mail are converted to lower case characters.
  • FIXED: Using the Block reason and the Move to Exchange folder action in the Directory Harvesting module, spam is correctly moved to the Exchange folder but the block reason is not appended in the subject.

More Information at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003181



JanZoet -> RE: GFI MailEssentials build 20071005 (2.Apr.2008 4:33:44 AM)

Changes within Service Release 20071203 include:


  • UPDATE: Implemented support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1, by introducing processing of outbound email in TNEF format, which is a requirement introduced in SP1 of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
  • FIXED: Filtering reason not being added to spam email when using the 'Forward to email address' action. 
  • FIXED: POP2Exchange would fail to download an email containing invalid headers.
  • FIXED: Installation did not always collect the inbound email domains.
  • FIXED: Installation defaults to Active Directory mode on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server with Edge role.
  • FIXED: Program crashing when GFI MailEssentials was stopped (IIS Admin service for Microsoft Exchange 2000\2003 and Scan Engine service for Microsoft Exchange 2007).


More Information at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003239



Nicks -> GFI MailEssentials build 20080623 (19.Sep.2008 5:21:30 AM)

Changes within build 20080623 include:
  • NEW: Support for Microsoft Windows 2008
  • NEW: Support for IPv6
  • UPDATE: Modified executables to support Windows User Access Control (UAC)
  • UPDATE: Implemented support for multiple out of office strings which auto-whitelist would ignore. More details about this update available in this KB article: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID002196
  • FIXED: Email not delivered through POP2Exchange to recipient in BCC if POP2Exchange is configured to send email to address stored in 'To' field
  • FIXED: Disclaimer not put in email when character set of body part is Unicode-1-1-utf-7
  • FIXED: GFISCANS.EXE crashes and restarts repeatedly
  • FIXED: NDR postmaster address written by Whitelist in log file is corrupted
  • FIXED: Auto updating of Bayesian and Anti-Phishing occasionally reported that no updates are available, irrespective of if the server contained new updates. 
More information can be found at http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003352




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