MailScanner ANNOUNCE: New commercial product SMGateway

Wed Mar 2 16:18:59 GMT 2005

Is the package pricing below per machine? I think I'd like to switch to
it, but I would only want the minimal support package, but I have
multiple mailscanner boxes (on each incoming MX, and my outbound relays,
with redundant boxes standing by for each). Even the base package would
probably get costly for me.

Regards
Michael Baird

> 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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