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About GFI MailSecurity GFI MailSecurity 2011  5
2.2.2 Outgoing email
Screenshot 2 -Outgoing email
Outgoing email is relayed to the GFI MailSecurity machine.
Email is scanned by GFI MailSecurity using the email scanning engines and filters
configured to scan outbound emails.
EMAIL SCANNING ENGINE
DESCRIPTION
Virus Scanning Engines
Scan emails for viruses and malicious code. Some engines also include other
features, such as macro checking, link scanning and Sandbox technology.
Content and attachment
filtering
Block emails that match any rules containing pre-configured conditions within
the email body or attachments.
Trojan & executable
scanner
Analyzes the function of executable files for malicious code.
Email exploit engine
Checks if attachments contain any exploits.
HTML Sanitizer
Scans and removes html code with email body and attachments.
GFI MailSecurity applies the appropriate action depending on the scan results.
SCAN RESULT
ACTION
Accepted
If the email is safe, delivery to the user‟s mailbox is allowed.
Blocked
When a compromised email is detected, the appropriate action is taken by GFI
MailSecurity depending on which action is configured (for example, the email is
quarantined).
2.2.3 Other features
Apart from scanning incoming and outgoing emails, GFI MailSecurity also includes the
features listed below.
FEATURE
DESCRIPTION
Internal emails scanning
Attachment Filtering and Content Filtering can be configured to scan internal
emails when GFI MailSecurity is installed on the Microsoft Exchange server.