In fact, there is virtually nothing that you cant do with MailMarshal SMTP.  If it is in an email MailMarshal SMTP can monitor, log, quarantine, block and archive it.

MailMarshal SMTP sits at the perimeter of your network, sending and receiving email from the Internet. It works with , and complements internal email systems such as MS Exchange Lotus, or Sendmail.

On it's way in and out of your network, MailMarshal scans the content of ALL email, and the email is then checked against a set of rules that you define.

MailMarshal is so much more - but in its simplest form MailMarshal stops email borne spam, viruses and ALL inappropriate content coming into your network, and stops confidentiality breaches, data leakage and inappropriate email content leaving your network.

Typically you can expect a 99% reduction on spam right out of the box. With a highly hardened ruleset (see Softek's Spam Rule Hardening Service) this figure has been increased to as high a 99.9% with less than 0.01% false positives (and decreasing).

MailMarshal 6.4 adds yet another layer of spam protection Marshal's "SpamProfiler". See the datasheet / product guide for more info.

MailMarshal SMTP performs exceptionally well straight out of the box on average hardware. It is one of the fastest (if not the fastest) email content filter on the market today - typically outperforming other products by a factor of 5-10 times !

MailMarshal's actual maximum performance will obviously depend on the usual hardware and bandwidth restraints, but we have customers running MailMarshal with millions of emails in and out every day.

Actual recommended spec may vary, but as an indication;

A regular P4-1.8Ghz with 512MB of RAM and an 20GB IDE disk running MailMarshal SMTP, McAfee, Sophos or Norman DLL virus scanners will support up to 5,000 users.

A Dual P4-2Ghz with 3x18GB RAID 5 SCSI disks can exceed email traffic throughput of 2 million messages per day- enough for tens of thousands of users.  A cluster of nodes can process an unlimited number of emails.

Therefore ANY modern PC or server will happily run MailMarshal for a significant amount of users without any problem at all.

In addition any number of MailMarshal "nodes" can be deployed. They can all share the same, automatically updated configuration, and share the mail processing load so there is no single point of total email failure.

Also a new MailMarshal SMTP appliance - the e10000 is now available.  Softek have tested this appliance performance at handling in excess of 2 million emails a day....

The archive is fully searchable (permissions permitting of course) and you can archive email for any time period you care to specify.

You may however want to look to a fully compliant, encrypted, tamperproof email archiving solution.  Softek recommend Ziplip - our onsite solution, or Global Relay - a hosted solution.

MailMarshal SMTP logs all email activity to a standard SQL format database. Out of the box dozens of reports are provided at no extra cost which give complete details on user activity, spam count, viruses received, bandwidth used and many others.

See our sample reports page for more info.

Using industry standard reporting tools (such as Crystal Reports) reporting options are limitless. *Note* Crystal Reports must be purchased separately.

As an email server based product, MailMarshal unpacks and scans email content and attachments before they reach the desktop (or even the corporate email server).

As a Content Security product, MailMarshal can scan the text of messages and block or redirect inappropriate content. Standalone Anti-Virus products (even the ones that run on email servers) can't do that.

MailMarshal can also detect, block and strip email of all dangerous attachments types - such as EXE, PIF and COM files. It does so by scanning the file type - NOT simply the file extension as many products do. Therefore an EXE file renamed to .DOC for example would still be blocked.

These all can share the same configuration (updated automatically of course). As well as balancing the email load, running multiple nodes allows you to route email to functioning nodes automatically.

Therefore if one node is down, another node will accept mail on it's behalf until it is up again.

MailMarshal is now available as an appliance for even easier deployment to multiple locations.

DLL based virus scanners are best. They provide the highest scanning speeds, report virus names, and also support cleaning.

DLL based scanners can operate about 10-30 times faster than regular "command line" scanners (because they don't have to load each time they are used).

Currently supported high speed DLL scanners include Marshal Integrated McAfee, Norman, and Sophos.

Other command line scanners may be supportedbut are used at your own risk. An update-to-date list is available from our support website http://esupport.softek.co.uk

*Note* Softek do not recommend virus cleaning as data integrity can never be 100% assured.

Optionally MailMarshal can strip virus infected email attachments while (again optionally) continuing to allow the body / text of the email through.

If full version MS SQL is not available on your site then the free, cut down version of SQL (called MSDE or MS SQL Express) can be used. MSDE is bundled with MailMarshal installation files.

MSDE 2000 has some limitations (which are generally not a problem for average customers)  SQL Express 2005 limitations are somewhat different - contact Micrososft for advice.

* MSDE 2000 Max database size is 2GB
* Max of two processors
* Limited to 8 concurrent executing operations per instance
* Max of 32,767 connections, 32,767 databases per instance, 16 instances per server
* Only uses up to 2GB of RAM
* Does not include Enterprise Manager GUI (but you can still use enterprise manager to manage a MSDE database)

SQL 2005 is fully supported - see our KB on our esupport system for full info.

Since MailMarshal SMTP version 2006, support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) is also built in. The TLS protocol provides communications privacy over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.

MailMarshal can also calculate the total bandwidth required to send a mass mail out that may also reduce network performance. For example, total bandwidth for a single message during business hours could be limited to 5MB.

A newsletter message of 10Kb to 1000 customers would total 10MB. MailMarshal would detect that this message would exceed the bandwidth allocation and park the message until the close of business.

Contact us if you need an extension to your trial key.

MailMarshal can apply rules to the entire organization, particular departments, selected groups of users or even one user. Examples of rules that may be used in these cases are:

Whole Company: ‘No user may receive messages larger than 10Mb’ or ‘No user may receive messages containing .EXE attachments'.

Department: ‘Only MARKETING may receive .MPEG attachments’ or ‘No department is allowed to receive .EXE attachments, except IT DEPARTMENT’.

Group: ‘Only MANAGERS may send confidential document ‘TOP SECRET.DOC’ or ‘No user in Group ‘PROBLEM USERS’ may send or receive emails larger than 1Mb or attachments other than .XLS and .DOC’

Individual User: ‘Block all messages from SPAMMESSAGES.COM unless addressed to PERSON@MYCOMPANY.COM’ or ‘Block all messages from PROBLEMUSER@MYCOMPANY.COM to domain COMPETITOR.COM’.

You simply define a rule to copy the messages to a folder you create (‘Outgoing’ or ‘Archive’ for example). Additionally you can set that folder to automatically create new subfolders on a set schedule; or you can set the folder to delete all messages older than a certain date (90 days for example). MailMarshal automatically logs information of message source, destination, subject and attachments by default.

You may however want to look to a fully compliant, encrypted, tamperproof email archiving solution.  Softek recommend Ziplip - our onsite solution, or Global Relay - a hosted solution.

• Windows Server Standard or Enterprise 2003 with or without Service Pack 1 (with latest security updates)
• Windows XP Professional Service Pack Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 as a domain member (with latest security updates)

Previous versions of MailMarshal SMTP 6.2 can run on Windows 2000, XP Pro SP2, or Windows 2003.

A version of MailMarshal SMTP is available for running on NT4, and while it runs perfectly well it is no longer being updated or developed.

Running any version of MailMarshal SMTP on Vista or 64bit Windows is not supported.

Please review all the hardware / software requirements provided in the release notes prior to installation.

Therefore MailMarshal SMTP will work perfectly well with ANY standard SMTP Mail system - including Exchange 2007, 2003, 2000, Groupwise, Mdeamon, Sendmail etc.etc.

The only caveat is that Exchange 2007 runs on 64bit Windows only, and MailMarshal cannot be installed on 64bit Windows.  So you cannot run Exchange 2007 and MailMarshal SMTP on the same machine.

You can be running ANY firewall - as long as you can open port 25 for SMTP mail traffic.

Yes. This feature is called 'Message Stamping'.

You can automatically add a legal disclaimer, product branding or company particulars to all outgoing messages, or to messages from selected users.

Custom Message Stamps can be created within MailMarshal using HTML or plain text. Disclaimers can appear at the head or foot of an email.

MS Exchange (all versions)
Lotus Notes
Mdaemon
Groupwise
CC Mail
SendMail
Pegasus Mail
And anything else that sends and receives SMTP / POP mail...