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1 Introduction
1.1 About this manual
The scope of this Administrator Guide is to help you install, run, configure and troubleshoot GFI
MailEssentials on your network. The table below describes the contents of this guide.
Chapter Description
About The components and tools that make up GFI MailEssentials
How inbound and outbound mail scanning works
Overview of the engines that protect your mail system
Typical deployment scenarios
For more information, refer to About GFI MailEssentials (page 16).
Installation The various environments and email infrastructures supported by GFI MailEssentials
Product prerequisites applicable to your network
Prepare your environment for product installation
Guides you through the installation and upgrade procedures
Walks you through the key steps needed to get the product running on default settings.
Test installation and run the product.
For more information, refer to Installation (page 24).
Monitoring
status
How to use the Dashboard to monitor status of GFI MailEssentials in real time
How to generate mail usage statistical and graphical reports
For more information, refer to Monitoring status (page 45).
User Actions Explains what domain users (not domain administrators)can do with GFI MailEssentials
Configuring personal whitelists and blocklists
Maintaining quarantined emails
For more information, refer to User Actions (page 62).
Email Security Explains how to configure anti-malware scanning engines
For more information, refer to Email Security (page 68).
Anti-Spam How to configure anti-spam filters
What to do with emails identified as spam
Sorting the scanning order by filter priority
General anti-spam settings
How users classify emails directly from their mailbox (Public Folder Scanning)
For more information, refer to Anti-Spam (page 101).
Content
Filtering
Describes how to configure engines that scan email content
For more information, refer to Content Filtering (page 156).
Quarantine Describes how administer and use the GFI MailEssentials Quarantine.
For more information, refer to Quarantine (page 180).