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owenb -> Version and Build Information - GFI MailEssentials 14 (15.Apr.2009 4:15:09 AM)

This thread contains information regarding the changes within the various builds of the GFI MailEssentials 14. Detailed information on each individual build can be found in the posts below.






Latest version of GFI MailEssentials:- Version 14.1 
Latest build of GFI MailEssentials:- Build 20091106

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



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14 Build 20080915 (15.Apr.2009 4:16:21 AM)

This is the release build of GFI MailEssentials 14. New features within this release include: 
 
  • SpamRazer engine. A new OEM anti-spam engine has been added to the GFI MailEssentials spam filters to further improve spam capture rate & ability to block new trends of spam.
  • Quick Look Dashboard.  A new dashboard application has been added to GFI MailEssentials, which provides improved processing logs & visual indicators of email processing and spam capture.
  • Directory Harvesting running in SMTP protocol sink. Directory Harvesting can now be set to run at SMTP procotol level, allowing blocking of spam before its content is downloaded.
  • Spam Email Digest. A daily\weekly\monthly report can be sent by email to administrators and individual recipients which would include a summary of spam received.
  • Support for 64bit IIS. GFI MailEssentials 14 now supports deploying on IIS in both Windows 2003 x64 and Windows 2008 x64.
  • Added Log Occurrence action for Whitelist
  • Improved speed of loading of Custom Blacklist configuration
  • Fixed access violation which can occur during logging to reporting database
  • Fixed issue in identification of inbound domains
  • Fixed issue in which email containing '@' in display name would not be delivered through POP2Exchange.


    Release Notes

    By default, the new SpamRazer engine runs with higher priority than other spam filters, and the default action which it performs when an email is blocked is tagging. If this action is not modifed, all spam blocked by SpamRazer is tagged and is still delivered to the recipient mailbox. It is suggested to amend the SpamRazer action depending on requirements as soon as the GFI MailEssentials 14 installation is complete.

    Known Issues

    Dashboard occasionally fails to load some of the email processing logs \ graphs. Closing\re-opening the dashboard or restarting the GFI MailEssentials Managed Attendant service fixes this problem.
    Updated user manual is not yet available in German. This will be made available in the first GFI MailEssentials 14 service release.
    The Recipient Digest option named "List of blocked spam” is documented in the manual but is not yet implemented in the product.
    The Spam Digest functionality for recipients will also send the spam digest to non-existing email addresses blocked by Directory Harvesting. It is suggested to make use of the "Only users listed below…” option in the "Recipients List” tab until a fix is released for this issue.



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14 SR 1 build 20081024 (15.Apr.2009 4:41:04 AM)

Changes within this release 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.



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14 SR 2 build 20090211 (15.Apr.2009 4:42:58 AM)

Changes within this release include:
  • UPDATE: Dashboard will display a single entry per processed email, instead of showing separate entries for SMTP and Full Email processing
  • UPDATE: Removed list.dsbl.org from DNS Blacklists list for clean installations, since this blacklist has stopped operating. For upgrades, this blacklist should be removed manually.
  • FIXED: Automatic updates for SpamRazer stop downloading
  • FIXED: Anti-Spam Synchronization Agent exception caused by email addresses containing single quote
  • FIXED: Browsing Custom Blacklist by pressing first letter of entry defaults to first entry in list instead of moving to first entry starting with the pressed letter
  • FIXED: Double entries shown in Custom Blacklist after performing an export
  • FIXED: Emails processed during the last 1.5 seconds of the day were not being included in the reports
  • FIXED: Email delivered with winmail.dat attachment due to changed transfer encoding
  • FIXED: If installed in German, Keyword Checking conditions containing “or”, “and not” and “or not” cannot be added
  • FIXED: Outbound email’s MIME FROM becomes corrupt
  • FIXED: Rolling over of reporting database not working when database size reached 1.7GB
  • FIXED: Send NDR action not working
  • FIXED: Sender’s column in User Communications report containing NULL value
  • FIXED: Time list of Recipient Spam Digest contains no values
  • FIXED: User counting on Microsoft Exchange 2007 was also counting users without a mailbox



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14 SR 3 build 20090325 (15.Apr.2009 4:44:39 AM)

Changes within this release include:
  • NEW: Localized product in Spanish and Italian
  • NEW: License status displayed in Dashboard status bar
  • FIXED: Spam Digest not working if large number of users is specified in the recipient list



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14 SR 4 build 20090408 (15.Apr.2009 4:45:45 AM)

Changes within this release include:
  • FIXED: Configuration not loading properly on Microsoft Windows 2000 in English
  • FIXED: POP2Exchange not working on GFI MailEssentials installed in German



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14.1 build 20090826 (28.Aug.2009 2:54:50 AM)

GFI MailEssentials 14.1 requires Microsoft Message Queuing Service in order to install. This is required even if the list server functionality is not used. The Microsoft Windows CD\DVD is required for installing Microsoft Message Queuing Service.

New and updated features in GFI MailEssentials 14.1:
  • NEW: Ability to install GFI MailEssentials in Russian
  • NEW: Support for processing of emails containing text in any language (Unicode support)
  • NEW: Common proxy server used by Bayesian, SpamRazer and Anti-Phishing updating functionality
  • NEW: Number of consecutive failures before auto-updaters send email notification
  • NEW: Anti-Spam Actions are now queued and executed by a separate module (GFI MailEssentials Managed Attendant) so as to reduce engine processing time
  • UPDATE: Incremental search and improved speed of loading of Whitelist and Blacklist. Also Improved speed of loading keyword lists.
  • UPDATE: Parallel processing of multiple blacklists in DNS Blacklist spam filter
  • UPDATE: Improved configuration user interface (tree structure, dialogs layout, grouping of spam filters & new nodes for Anti-Spam Filters Priority, Anti-Spam Settings and General Settings)
  • UPDATE: Ability to select multiple actions to perform when spam email is blocked
  • UPDATE: Added GFI MailEssentials Switchboard, which can be used to start\stop processing of emails by GFI MailEssentials, enable\disable debug logging and enable\disable copying of emails pre & post MailEssentials processing (sink\source archives)
  • UPDATE: Increased the limit of the number of IP addresses that can be processed from an SPF record from 5 IP addresses to 10
  • FIXED: SMTP sink will now reject the email with a 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address instead of just dropping the connection
  • FIXED: List Server will remove the “prvs=<TOKEN>=” part of emails containing BATV (Bounce Address Tag Validation). This fixes the issue of emails containing BATV not being recognized as subscribed addresses.
  • FIXED: Spam Digest not sending digest email when number of spam to show in spam list is over 15,000
  • FIXED: WebDAV public folder training creates the GFI MailEssentials public folders using English names even though the product is installed in a non-English language
  • FIXED: Emails with ‘+’ in subject are not processed by public folder training
  • FIXED: Removed “.” from name of two public folders for German language, since moving emails to these folders did not work
  • FIXED: ORCPT not being handled by SMTP sink



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14.1 SR1 build 20091027 (11.Nov.2009 2:40:23 AM)

GFI MailEssentials 14.1 Service Release 1 (build 20091027) has been released and is available for download.
Changes within this release include:
  • FIXED: Emails get stuck in the SMTP queue after being processed by GFI MailEssentials.
  • FIXED: Emails looping between GFI MailSecurity and GFI MailEssentials when forward to email action is used in GFI MailEssentials.
  • FIXED: Reduction in spam capture by SpamRazer, caused by failed execution of certain DNS based checks performed by the engine.
  • FIXED: Crash of Synch agent service when a port other than the default port is used.
  • FIXED: Crash of SURBL module caused by emails containing URI which is longer than 2048 characters.
  • FIXED: Dot stuffing performed whilst processing of emails can corrupt attachments.
  • FIXED: Emails downloaded through POP2Exchange are not being delivered to recipients. This happens due to an issue in the handling of From\To header entries containing text in () brackets.
  • FIXED: If selecting only Move to Inbox and Block Reason actions for any anti-spam filter, the block reason is not added to the blocked email.
  • FIXED: Directory Harvesting at SMTP level does not block emails containing at least 1 remote recipient (recipient whose domain is not listed in the GFI MailEssentials inbound domains list). Due to this issue, GFI MailEssentials doesn't block certain casino related spam emails.
  • FIXED: Crash caused in Whitelist, Blacklist and Mail Monitoring modules when processing emails whose recipients contain multiple empty spaces in From\To header.
  • FIXED: A minor memory leak affecting the GFI MailEssentials Scan Engine service which is caused by the module which routes emails to list server (even when list server is not used).
  • FIXED: The detection of perimeter servers which is performed during installation fails, causing the perimeter server option to be set but having list of perimeters not populated.
  • FIXED: If multiple perimeter servers are identified and the local server's IP is one of the IP addresses, it is not included in the perimeter servers list.
  • FIXED: Disclaimers\General Settings user selection button not displaying user selection dialog.
  • FIXED: On Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the disclaimer Sender Name value would be set using the Sender Email instead.
  • FIXED: Downloading of SpamRazer updates fails.
  • FIXED: Save to disk action does not remove characters which cannot be written as part of the filename, causing action to fail.
  • FIXED: Error reported when enabling\disabling tracing in Switchboard.
  • FIXED: Updated the Send Fake NDR action so as to support entering a different postmaster email address. This issue resulted from the change which was made in GFI MailEssentials 14.1, in which the use of the template ndr.xml has been replaced with email subject and body XSL templates. The KB article which describes how to set the postmaster email of the fake NDR has been updated to explain how this can be set in GFI MailEssentials 14.1:
    http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001795



owenb -> GFI MailEssentials 14.1 SR2 build 20091106 (11.Nov.2009 2:41:27 AM)

Changes within this release include:
  • FIXED: Resolving of perimeter server MX IP addresses fails if domain MX points to a CNAME record. On 32bit systems, this causes the installation to hang during the Welcome screen. On Microsoft Exchange 2007, this issue affects the post install wizard.
  • FIXED: When installing on Microsoft Exchange 2007, the installation copies certain files required by the post install wizard to the default GFI MailEssentials folder instead of the selected folder, causing the post install wizard to fail.



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