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Emergic CleanMail

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PCQ Bureau
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If you still don't have an anti-spam or anti-virus running on your e-mail

server, here is a comprehensive solution for that. Emergic CleanMail (ECM) is an

OS, based on Linux platform and has in-built anti-spam and anti-virus protection

for e-mail servers. Apart from these basic features, it has in-bound content and

attachment filtering. It gives you the freedom to define your own white and

black lists of e-mail addresses and domains. You can also set the algorithm to

be used for scanning. For anti-virus scanning, it uses clamAV and F-Prot by

default, but if you want, you can also have support for other scannings, such as

Sophos, MacAfee, F-Secure, etc. This also facilitates you with a feature called

Dictionary Check, which helps you explicitly define the rule-set for detecting

spam. For example, you can specify that all mails with a particular word in the

subject or body, should be treated as spam. The minimum requirement for the

Emergic CleanMail to function, is Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB HDD, a network card

and of course Internet connectivity. The ECM has to be placed between the

Internet and your mail server. After scanning the mails, it relays them to your

mail server and maintains logs in a database. The logs register the sender and

recipient for each mail, as well as size and status of each mail. Best thing

about ECM is that, if supposedly, your mail server goes down, then ECM will

queue your e-mails and deliver them, when your mail server comes up again. So,

it also works as a buffer for you mail server.

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For testing it, we ran it on the minimum required hardware, as mentioned

above. The time taken to install ECM was only 15 minutes. The installation was

also easy. After that we placed the box on the Internet and opened its browser

interface remotely. Configuring ECM was easy. We set it to relay all e-mails to

our local e-mail server. For the test, we fired several e-mails from one of the

test accounts that we had created. It successfully relayed all incoming e-mails

to our mail server and blocked all spams successfully. We also tested it for

anti-virus and it performed well. We checked for 'Dictionary checks' option, and

for this we fired many e-mails which we defined as spam, in the rule set of the

ECM. For testing the 'Mail queue' option, we temporarily unplugged the server

from the network and tested the ECM. It successfully queued up the mail, until

the mail server was up again.

Price:

Rs 800 per user per year



Meant For: Mid-sized enterprises


Key Specs: Anti-spam, anti-virus
protection



Pros: Elaborate reporting, saves
mails in case your mail server goes down



Cons: None


Contact: Netcore, Mumbai


Tel: 98200 32324,
Email:alpit@netcore.co.in









SMS Buy 130891 to 6677

Bottom Line: Overall, ECM performed well and it is worth buying.

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