Borderware MXtreme 3.1 email firewall and anti-SPAM appliance

BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall 3.1

Release Notes : New Features

Centralized Management

The new Centralized Management feature allows you to administer multiple MXtreme Mail Firewalls from a single management console.

The Centralized Management feature can be found by clicking on "Management", and then "Centralized Management" from the menu.

Vacation Notification

MXtreme now supports Vacation Notification which allows a user to send automated email replies to incoming messages when they are out of the office.

The global Vacation Notification settings can be found by clicking "Mail Delivery", and then "Vacation Notification" from the menu.

Vacation Notifications for individual users can be configured by the administrator via the user's profile.

Tiered Administration

Tiered Administration allows an administrator to assign additional administrative access permissions on a per-user basis.

Tiered Administration privileges are assigned by the administrator from a user's profile.

Brightmail 5.1

Brightmail Anti-Spam is the premier managed spam protection solution. Combined with the MXtreme Mail Firewall, Brightmail Anti-Spam offers the highest accuracy and effectiveness with the lowest administration costs of any anti-spam solution.

MXtreme 3.1 integrates Brightmail Anti-Spam 5.1 Enterprise edition, which is available as a cost-option and may be evaluated for 30 days at any time following installation.

Brightmail 5.5 will be supported in a future update.

LDAP Support

MXtreme can communicate with services that support LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), such as Active Directory. This feature is useful for accessing directories of mail users. MXtreme can search for mail aliases and virtual mappings via LDAP.

LDAP server configuration can be accessed by clicking "Basic Config", and then "LDAP Servers" from the menu. The Virtual Mappings and Mail Aliases menus (accessed from Mail Delivery) also include buttons for LDAP searches

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Other issues and enhancements

Anti-virus pattern update intervals can now be set for 15, 30 and 60 minutes.
A new Brightmail mail header (X-Brightmail-Tracker:) can be added to a scanned message that is delivered locally. This option is enabled by default.
New Client/Hostname restrictions have been added to the anti-spam options: (Reject on unknown sender domain, Reject on non FQDN sender, Reject on unauth pipelining).
The raw mail body or decoded mail content can now be selected for body PBMF filters.
Reports can now be deleted from the Report List screen.
SSL/TLS status of inbound connections and outbound deliveries are now reported in the message details.
Postfix performance tuning options for MX-400 and MX-800 systems can be accessed via the URL: https:///ADMIN/pf_tuning.spl

Upgrade Notes

The upgrade procedure for MXtreme 3.1 has been tested with MXtreme versions 2.1 and 3.0.

It is strongly recommended that all users save a copy of the current configuration and backup MXtreme before proceeding with the upgrade. See the Backup and Restore section of the MXtreme User Guide for more detailed information on backing up and restoring the system.

If there are large amounts of information to be backed up, please use the remote FTP server option instead of local disk. It is recommended that you manually record or print out all information in the Basic Config – Network settings screen before the upgrade. When you have restored your system, review your network settings, and then click Update to reboot the system. This ensures that all restored settings have been applied.

For more information on the upgrade procedure, please refer to the How to Upgrade the MXtreme Mail Firewall document.