MailScanner ANNOUNCE: New commercial product SMGateway

[Michael Baird]

BTW, your download form wouldn't let me enter my information when I
specified my Company Name, it responded with a javascript error no
matter how I entered it, until I left it blank, at which point I
received the success page.

Regards
Michael Baird

>
> > 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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