Sophos PureMessage

Protecting your email servers and gateways against spam and viruses!

Sophos PureMessage is a comprehensive, flexible and mature mail filtering solution for large organizations, protecting them against viruses, spam and other email-borne security threats. It combines industry-leading anti-virus and anti-spam technologies with flexible policy management and world-class support. PureMessage enables organizations to take greater control of their email traffic resulting in reduced network downtime and productivity loss.

Sophos PureMessage is a comprehensive, flexible email management solution which enables your company to take greater control of its email traffic by protecting against spam and viruses in multiple language mail streams. PureMessage includes threat reduction features which can help prevent companies from being infected from previously unseen viruses and email-aware worms.

There are two enterprise versions of PureMessage. A version for small businesses, PureMessage Small Business Edition, is also available. The enterprise solutions consist of PureMessage for Unix and PureMessage for Windows/Exchange. Each provides a powerful combination of features. In addition, PureMessage for Unix can also help to enforce your corporate email policy.

Features

• Powerful anti-virus protection - Award-winning Sophos anti-virus technology scans all mail at the gateway to protect the entire organisation from email-borne viruses, Trojans, worms and malicious spyware.
• Leading anti-spam protection - PureMessage's industry-leading anti-spam technology safely identifies up to 98% of spam, resulting in inboxes free of unsolicited bulk emails. Flexible configuration options allow businesses to define their spam identification and handling policies uniquely (e.g. delete, quarantine, tag and pass).
• Threat reduction - By blocking specific file types, subject lines, executables and mass-mailing emails, threat reduction technology protects against new, unknown worms.
• Central administration - A graphical administrative interface provides flexible control over mail filtering.
• End-user control - End users can review their personal spam quarantine.
• Automatic updates - Anti-virus and anti-spam updates are automatically delivered and seamlessly deployed as new threats arise.

• Automated quarantine manager - Administrators can use this to search and review spam or virus-laden messages, and take further action, including approving for delivery or deleting.
• Reporting - PureMessage reporting provides measurable feedback on message-filtering activity. Reports monitor filter activity through visual data for the message stream and quarantine contents.

• Powerful policy builder - The PureMessage Policy Manager in PureMessage for Unix features a flexible web-based interface for managing and testing the overall PureMessage filtering policy, including specifying the behaviour, and order of rules and actions applied to messages.
• Centralised server management - Administration is centralised for Unix users by synchronising servers, consolidating reporting, and enabling multiple servers to share a single configuration in multiple-server environments.

• 32-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86/x86-64 (3 to 5)
• 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise on x86-64 (4 and 5)
• 32-bit SUSE Linux on x86/x86-64 (Enterprise Server 8 to 10, Professional 8 to 9.2)
• 32-bit Debian on x86/x86-64 (3.0, 3.1, 4)
• 32-bit FreeBSD on x86/x86-64 (5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3)
• Sun Solaris on SPARC (8 to 10)
• Sun Solaris 10 on x86/86-64

• Sendmail (8.13.6 included): 8.11.6 or higher
• Postx (2.5.4 included): 2.0.x and 2.1 or higher
• Supports Sun Java™ System Messaging Server 5.2 and 6 on Solaris SPARC
• Other Mail Transfer Agents: supported via relay conguration