MailScanner ANNOUNCE: New commercial product SMGateway

Wed Mar 2 15:52:47 GMT 2005

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Julian,

You know that we are all going to try install it on "other" os platforms ;-)

Lance

Julian Field wrote:

> We are pleased to announce SMGateway, the first Secure Mail Gateway
> product from Fortress Systems Ltd.
>
> SMGateway is based on MailScanner, the world's most widely used e-mail
> gateway application. SMGateway employs MailScanner in conjunction with
> SpamAssassin, ClamAV and your choice of additional commercial virus
> scanners to provide the most effective, easy to use, anti-spam and
> anti-virus solution available.
>
> Fortress SMGateway has all of the functionality provided by MailScanner
> and SpamAssassin plus extensions and enhancements to provide a simple
> web based interface for users and administrators.  These added features
> allow administrators to more easily install, control and configure
> e-mail gateway operations while allowing users and administrators to set
> their own spam preferences.
>
> SMGateway provides a web based administrative interface which allows
> administrators to easily:
>
> .. Configure MailScanner including rule sets
> .. Configure e-mail forwarding to any type of Mailhub
> .. Setup multiple domains forwarding to different mailhubs
> .. Roll-back to previous configurations
> .. Easily backup configurations
> .. Validate user on mailhub before acceptance of e-mail on gateway
> .. Configure allowed file names and file types for attachments
>
> The Web based interface also allows the site administrator, domain
> administrators and individual users to easily set their own spam
> preferences, and administer white and black lists.
>
> Authentication to the web interface is provided for three levels of
> users:
>
> .. Site administrators are allowed to set and change any configuration
> data for the entire site.
>
> .. Domain administrators are allowed to set and change spam preferences,
> white and black lists for their specific domains.
>
> .. Users are able to set their own spam preferences, white and black
> lists.
>
> The user's logon to the user web interface for setting individual or
> site preferences is automatically authenticated against their Microsoft
> Active Directory or any POP or IMAP mailhub. There is no need to setup
> or administer user accounts or logins on the gateway.
>
> SMGateway includes MailWatch for MailScanner, a real-time console for
> MailScanner. MailWatch provides a web based interface for:
>
> .. Individual Message tracking
> .. Release of messages from quarantine
> .. Feeding ham (not-spam) and spam to the Bayesian filter
> .. E-mail and Spam reporting and statistics
> .. Real time message queuing statistics.
>
> SMGateway automatically installs and configures additional applications
> to help identify spam and viruses:
>
> .. ClamAV is a highly regarded Open Source Virus Scanner
>
> .. DCC (Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse) is a System of clients and
> servers that collect and count checksums of e-mail messages in order to
> detect spam
>
> .. Pyzor is a collaborative, networked system to detect and block spam
> using identifying digests of messages
>
> .. Razor2 is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering
> Network
>
> SMGateway supports the simultaneous use of multiple virus scanners
> including:
>
> .. AntiVir
> .. AVG
> .. BitDefender
> .. ClamAV
> .. Command
> .. CSS
> .. DrWeb
> .. eTrust
> .. F-Prot
> .. F-Secure
> .. Inoculan
> .. Inoculate
> .. Kaspersky
> .. McAfee
> .. Nod32
> .. Norman
> .. Panda
> .. Sophos
> .. SYMSymscan
> .. Trend
> .. Vexira
>
> SMGateway is currently supported only on a clean minimal installation of
> Red Hat 3 (ES or AS). Support for Red Hat 4 and CentOS 4 will be
> available shortly.
>
> The installation of MailScanner and all related applications takes
> approximately 5 minutes. Configuration for most common setups should
> take less than one hour.
> Known Limitations in this version include:
>
> .. Web configuration of per domain and per user allowed filenames and
> filetypes is not possible from the GUI.
>
> .. Release from quarantine using the MailWatch interface is only allowed
> for the site administrator.
>
> Pricing and Support
>
> SMGateway is available for download from our web site at no charge.
> Fortress systems does provide and charge for support and updates. To
> maintain a reliable business e-mail system, we strongly advise you
> purchase SMGateway in conjunction with a support package:
>
> Package 1:
> Web support; 12 hour response SLA and 1 year of updates
> US   $849.00
>
> Package 2:
> 5 x 8 Phone Support, 4 hr response SLA and 1 year of updates
> US $1,648.00
>
> Package 3:
> 7 x 24 Phone Support, 4 hr response SLA and 1 year of updates
> US $2,547.00
>
> Rapid and high quality support is vital in any modern business system.
> We provide a range of support packages at standard prices. Please do not
> hesitate to contact us if you require a support contract that is not
> listed here.
>
> To ensure we can give all customers who purchase support a very high
> quality of service, we are restricting the number of support packages
> that we sell. Support packages will be sold starting next Monday, March
> 7, on a "first come, first served" basis, and we will limit sales to
> avoid compromising our ability to provide high quality services.
>
> Please visit our web site for additional information on SMGateway:
>
>        http://www.fsl.com/products/SMGateway_release.html
>
> To download please visit:
>
>        http://www.fsl.com/company/register.php
>
> For detailed information on features and operations, please download the
> manual:
>
>        http://www.fsl.com/support/Fortress-SMGateway-manual.pdf
>
> For information on a soon to be released appliance that utilizes a
> custom version of SMGateway, please visit:
>
>        http://www.optimati.com
>
> We hope you will find our efforts to be of value to you and your
> organization.
>
> --
> Julian Field and Stephen Swaney
> Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer
> Fortress Systems Ltd
> www.FSL.com
>
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