GFI MailEssentials 2012 Service Release 3 (build 20121218)

Type: Release

Product: GFI MailEssentials 2012

Improvements:

• Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (Information Store Scanning is not supported on this Exchange version due to lack of VSAPI support in Microsoft Exchange 2013; MailEssentials 2012 will still support VSAPI scanning for Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010)
• Support for upgrading from VIPRE Email Security for Exchange
• Localization in German, Spanish, Italian and Russian languages
• New Anti-Spoofing filter, which blocks emails with spoofed local domains in the email sender
• New Personal Whitelist and Blocklist feature
• New custom and scheduled reports functionality
• IP DNS Blocklist filter can now filter SPAM during SMTP transmission
• Re-introduced the Anti-Spam Header Checking filter, which was available in GFI MailEssentials 2010 and earlier versions
• User interface support for Firefox v.16.0.2 or later and Chrome v22.0.1229.94 or later
• Support for Microsoft Exchange 2003 cluster environments
• Performance improvements in the loading of the dashboard
   

Resolves:

• Attachment Checking filter blocked EML files when the option to block all files except for a number of file-types was used, even though EML was in the list of allowed file-types
• On Microsoft Exchange 2003, an unhandled error caused processing of all outbound emails to fail
• Email processing fails for emails at regular intervals due to an issue when writing Anti-Spam filtering information to reporting database
• The GFI MailEssentials 2012 installation had an issue in the detection of third party VSAPI products
• The menus within generated reports showed an error if GFI MailEsssentials was running in Local Mode
• The upgrade from GFI MailEssentials 2010 reported an incorrect quarantine location in the installation if the location was not the default before upgrading
• The Updates tab of Anti-Phishing and Bayesian configuration were not showing the correct version information of the downloaded updates
• Approving and previewing of quarantined emails from quarantine digest was requesting credentials each time an approve or preview link is accessed
• The post installation wizard failed to launch automatically after an upgrade from GFI MailEssentials 14.1, causing all emails to bypass GFI MailEssentials processing
• The upgrade from GFI MailEssentials 12 was changing Move to Exchange action to Move to Inbox and Tagging
• When email processing functionality was disabled from the Switchboard, the quarantine public URL was set to empty
• Global actions tab was displayed when Move to Exchange functionality was not available
• If the Remote Commands security option was enabled but no email address was specified in the list, the module reported that it was disabled
• Outbound emails which were blocked by Information Store Protection where shown in the dashboard with empty strings in sender, recipient and subject
• When switching to Local Mode from the Switchboard, the RSS virtual directory’s application pool was deleted, causing access to the RSS virtual directory to fail
• Public folder scanning did not support specifying a server name which starts with a number
• The check for updates functionality was not returning correct response when a new build was uploaded
• Installation was failing when enumerating multiple SMTP servers that make use of same port and host address
• The test button in the Directory Harvesting configuration did not work if GFI MailEssentials was running in Local Mode
• Deletion of excluded emails from Greylist configuration was deleting entries from list of both exclusion tabs
• Emails which had a Message ID containing a ‘ character were not reported in dashboard
• The Troubleshooter wizard was not exporting the Synchronization Agent configuration
• Issue where when checking for the latest build from the UI, it would incorrectly report "No new build available"
   

Where to Download:

The latest version of GFI MailEssentials can be downloaded from http://www.gfi.com/downloads/mirrors.aspx?pid=me.