MailMarshal SMTP

MailMarshal SMTP is an enterprise-level email content security and control product. Content Security is about monitoring and controlling the electronic data entering or leaving an organization. MailMarshal provides server-based solutions to the key issues in this area.

MailMarshal SMTP is designed to screen out email threats such as viruses and spam, while providing a checkpoint for confidential data, defamation, profanity or other forms of email misuse that may potentially harm business reputation.

Conceptual Overview

MailMarshal SMTP provides email content filtering. Logically, it behaves as a gateway between an organization and the Internet. It can be configured to enforce your corporate Acceptable Use Policy.
MailMarshal controls the type of email content (including attachments) that can be sent and received.
MailMarshal can be configured to block traffic to or from any Internet site.

MailMarshal can control the movement of commercially sensitive data, give legal liability protection, block junk mail, eliminate inappropriate use, and enable virus scanning, message logging and management reporting.
All features can be applied on a per-user basis.

MailMarshal SMTP is server-based and runs on Windows NT or Windows 2000 Server.

Already have a firewall? MailMarshal complements the function of traditional "firewall" products. Traditional firewalls are often likened to the Immigration service at an international airport. They monitor and control who has access. MailMarshal is like the Customs and security screening services. It monitors and controls what data are allowed to enter or leave.

As this analogy makes clear, MailMarshal SMTP fills an important gap in traditional network security models. Without Customs, contraband and dangerous goods would travel freely. Similarly, studies have shown that most corporate data leaks (both intentional and inadvertent) are through employees who have free access to the data in question. As for incoming email-borne viruses, they may be addressed to anyone without their consent. MailMarshal is designed to reduce these security risks dramatically.

Feature List

MailMarshal SMTP provides a full set of features.

• Email Content Scanning
• Attachment Structure Scanning
• Unpacking and scanning of attachments within MS Word documents
• Recursive Archive Unpacking
• Spam protection supporting MAPS RBL and compatibles
• Comprehensive Usage Reports
• Virus Checking
• Ruleset Wizards
• Pre-Configured Rulesets
• Text Censor Scripts
• Message Stamping
• Advanced lexical scanner
• ESMTP support (blocks oversize messages before they arrive)
• Bandwidth calculation, message parking and delayed delivery
• Full POP3 mail service for stand-alone use
• LDAP support synchronizes user groups with Notes, Exchange, and others
• Header Matching and Rewriting permits greater network security
• Rule-based message routing to expedite incoming messages
• Optional support for PKI encryption/decryption and signing of email at the gateway
  

System Requirements

Software:

The MailMarshal SMTP program requires the following software:

• Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 Server, or Windows XP. (MailMarshal Secure requires Windows 2000 or XP.)
• If run on NT 4.0, a minimum of Service Pack 4.
• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 1.2
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5
• Internet Explorer 5.01

MailMarshal Reports require the following additional components:

• SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 7 SP2, or Microsoft Database engine (MSDE - a freely distributable version of SQL server). This may be installed on the MailMarshal server or elsewhere on the network.
  

Provided that all prerequisites are installed, installation of MailMarshal does not require system restart.

Hardware:

Hardware requirements vary by installation. However some guidelines may be given:

• 1000 users: Pentium III 600, 5GB HD, 128MB RAM
• 10000 users: Dual Pentium III 1000, 20 GB HD, 512MB RAM

Please contact us for suggested large-system configurations, which will vary depending on number of users, number of messages, and bandwidth.

Depending on traffic, MailMarshal may run on the same server as Exchange or Notes/Domino. It may also function as a stand-alone POP3 server. It may be installed on the same server as a proxy server.

MailMarshal SMTP will make full use of a multi-processor system or load-balanced server group. It may be installed within a DMZ or on either side of a traditional firewall.

Downloads:

Please feel free to download the following MailMarshal evaluation.

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