GFI MailSecurity

[aclarke_31]

I'm hoping someone will be able to assist me with this.

I'm trying to find a way for our Exchange 2003 Server to receive mail temporarily without the GFI MailSecurity Scanner processing the mail.

Has anyone come across a situation where they have needed to do this, however because of how tightly GFI integrates itself with Exchange, if you disable the services, it stops the queue.

Note: Apologies to mods if posted in the wrong forum.

Thanks :)

[xendrome]

Well maybe lets look at it this way.

Backup, and state what the problem is, or the reason you are trying to do this. I am a familiar with GFI MailSecurity and Essentials. I might be able to help.

[aclarke_31]

We receive IronPort Secure E-mails, but at some point GFI is stripped the "defanghtml_" tags in the secure attachment on the e-mail, so when we open the attachment the correct html tags aren't being passed to the IronPort Server and thus, are stopping the server from providing the correct content on the page.

We are quite sure that this is GFI performing the stripped of the html, however we have disabled all the modules in GFI and wanted to disable GFI to test this. If we can't, the only option for us would seem to be to completely uninstall GFI.

Is this something you are able to assist with?

Thanks

[xendrome]

Well, as far as stripping content from e-mails, GFI shouldn't do that.

The only options for it's rule based filtering are to Delete/Quarantine/Block or Move/Forward.

SMTP Accepts the e-mail, a SMTP Sink is run that has GFI's engines scan the content of the mail againsted it's Rules/Filters. If it matches something, it takes the action set by the Rule/Filter.

GFI as far as I know will not modify ANY e-mail content, only take action based on rules.

However, you can always uninstall GFI, that will remove the sinks from the SMTP server. Just leave the GFI folder in program files intact.

Once you are done testing and want to add GFI back, just reinstall it to the same folder it was installed to prior and all of the settings will remain that you had prior.

**UPDATE**

OH I just found something in the newest version that they carried over from GFI Mail Essentials.

Go into GFI Mail Security Console and look for "Configure HTML Sanitizer", uncheck the "Enable HTML Sanitizer" and apply.

If you've already tried that, then a Uninstall might be worth a shot just to test, as you won't lose the config when you reinstall to same folder.