GFI MAX MailEdge

Email is a critical communications tool.  In an environment of continually rising volumes of spam and email threats, companies are facing the need to economically defend their infrastructure while also protecting against any email downtime.  Using a hybrid solution that combines an existing on-premise anti-spam/antivirus system with an online solution enables customers to leverage their existing investment, while ensuring stronger defense against threats and providing an on-demand, always available backup mail service.

As a hosted frontline defense solution for your email security system, GFI MAX MailEdge offers an additional layer of email threat protection and email continuity functionality.  Designed to be used in combination with GFI MailEssentials, GFI MailSecurity or other existing on-premise anti-spam/antivirus tools, GFI MAX MailEdge is able to block the most obvious spam before it reaches a customer’s network, drastically reducing the bandwidth and processing power required for handling the increasing volumes of incoming email, and effectively increasing the capacity of the on-premise tool.

Equally importantly, GFI MAX MailEdge provides email continuity: the service will automatically queue any legitimate inbound email messages that cannot be delivered, and allows customers to access and respond to those messages when the customer’s email server is offline.

The key benefits of GFI MAX MailEdge are:

• Defense in depth due to the hybrid combination of on-premise and on-line systems.
• Most spam and virus threats are blocked outside of the network, reducing bandwidth requirements and improving email server performance.
• Rapid deployment and little or no ongoing management.
• Business continuity with integrated queuing and on-demand mail service.
• Brandable at all touch points including web-based control panel.
• Simple, per-user-per-month pricing structure, with no capital expenditure or start-up costs.
• Compatibility with any email, antivirus, anti-spam or operating system.

Network defense
Up to 90% of all spam and email threats can be blocked before they reach the customer's network – reducing risk, freeing up network bandwidth and easing mail server load.

Continuity
Customers can continue accessing, responding to, and sending email messages, even in the event of an on-premise mail server or network outage; mail is queued by the service, and customers can continue accessing or responding to those messages via the GFI MAX MailProtection control panel, even while their own mail server is off-line.

Directory harvest attack prevention
Defend against spammers who attempt to deliver messages to a large number of valid and invalid email addresses at your domain.

Intuitive web-based control panel
The customisable web-based control panel allows administrators and users to control the service, while providing access to queued mail in the event of an on-premise mail server failure.

Denial of service attack (DoS) prevention
Prevent email-based DoS attacks by limiting and controlling inbound SMTP traffic from one or more given source IP addresses.

Brandable at all touch points, including its web-based control panel
Distributors, partners or customers can consistently promote themselves to their user-base with an easily customisable GUI, which can reflect the desired URL, logo, and color scheme of that organisation.  The branding extends beyond the web-based control panel to all end-user touch points, including customisable message digests, notifications, and other communications.

Platform-neutral
Works with any operating systems or mail infrastructure including Exchange, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra, qmail, postfix, sendmail and any other SMTP server.

GFI MAX MailEdge is a complementary solution adding email continuity and an extra layer of email threat protection to existing on-premise anti-spam/antivirus solutions.  The hybrid service plus on-premise solution offers customers defense in depth, better scalability and reliability than a single on-premise solution; coupled with email continuity to safeguard an organisation's mission-critical communications.

Easy & affordable: How GFI MAX MailEdge benefits your business

With GFI MAX MailEdge you can enjoy the following benefits:

• Immediate activation – simply register for better protection and peace of mind for just cents per user per month.
• No additional hardware or software to download, install, or maintain.
• Allows customers to continue using email even when their own mail server is down; incoming messages are queued, and customers can access and respond to those messages via the web interface, at any time and with no prior preparation other than simply using the service.
• Email threats are blocked before reaching your network – dramatically reducing risk, bandwidth and storage requirements and load on the mail server.
• Minimal or no training requirements mean that an organisation can be up and running immediately and with ease.
• Support – GFI MAX MailEdge’s customer service team provides responsive support to customers, from assistance with the initial activation to help with any other questions that may arise, online or by phone, 24/7.