MailGate is a easy-to-use email access control gateway. It provides control of email by the email size , attachment filename, attachment filetype, email content. MailGate also work with several commerical Antivirus software, which protect your staff suffer from the attack of viruses, malicious programs and spam email.

• Q.1 What is MailGate?
  
  • MailGate is an easy-to-use e-mail access control gateway. It provides control of e-mails by e-mail size, attachment filename, attachment filetype, e-mail content. MailGate also works with several commercial Antivirus software, which protect your staff suffer from the attack of viruses, malicious programs and spam mails.
  
  
  
• Q.2 What are the basic functions of MailGate?
  
  • Automatically scan inbound and outbound e-mails in real time.
    
  • Stop spreading of viruses, junk mails, pornographic messages and unwanted file types.
    
  • Incoming and outgoing file size controlling
    
  • Enable monitoring on incoming and outgoing e-mails.
    
  • Prevent selected users to send e-mails to outside.
    
  • Prevent selected users to get outside incoming e-mails.
    
  • More is coming.
  
  
  
• Q.3 What are the benefits of deploying MailGate?
  
  • Low cost since no hardware or software needed in client side
    
  • Few administration workload due to centralized control.
    
  • Protect your company image by preventing the spread of virus and junk mails.
    
  • Protect your company's confidential information by filtering, monitoring the e-mails and restricting some specified users on sending out-going e-mails.
    
  • Centralized virus signatures update.
    
  • Most importantly, you can have a peace of mind.
  
  
  
• Q.4 Why still need an anti-virus system in e-mail server side if my corporate have anti-virus software in every desktop?
  
  • Users may disable the virus scanning software in their desktop in order to avoid the disturbances.
    
  • Some e-mail client software in desktop will automatically open the attachment in e-mails.
    
  • Detect virus before they enter into your local area network.
    
  • Security enhancement: one more layer of protection since no virus scanning software can guard ALL virus
  
  
  
• Q.5 Why MailGate is so powerful?
  
  • It can support more than 6 virus scanners inside at the same time, e.g. F-Secure, McAfee, Sophos, Kaspersky, InoculateIT, nod32, etc.
  
  
  
• Q.6 What will MailGate do once a virus is detected ?
  
  • The virus-infected email will be blocked and an alert message will be sent to the sender, receiver and administrator or you can decide who can get the alert message.
  
  
  
• Q.7 What can I do if MailGate detect a virus but the document contained important information which the receiver need it urgently?
  
  • The administrator can still release the content of email to the receiver.
  
  
  
• Q.8 Can I set different blocking rules for each group of users?
  
  • Yes. Moreover, MailGate can still conduct virus checking for them.
  
  
  
• Q.9 Is it difficult to do the administration work of MailGate?
  
  • No. The administration work can by done by mouse click.
    
  • It can automatically online updating virus signatures according to the pre-defined schedule.
  
  
  
• Q.10 How much could I save when my company deploy MailGate?
  
  • Administration cost and time.
    
  • Downtime cost.
    
  • Reduce the interference to the end users due to server side real-time scanning.
    
  • The cost of lost file and data.
    
  • Most importantly, you can have a peace of mind.
  
  
  
• Q.11 Which kinds of mail server does MailGate support?
  
  • It can support Sendmail. "Qmail version" is coming soon.
  
  
  
• Q.12 Does MailGate support multi-domains?
  
  • Yes, it does.
  
  
  
• Q.13 What platform does MailGate support?
  
  • It supports Linux x86 platform now and the versions for Alpha/Unix platform are coming.
  
  
  
• Q.14 Can MailGate process large volumes of email?
  
  • It mostly depends on the hardware.
  
  
  
• Q.15 What can I do in the time between a new virus outbreak and the signatures becoming available?
  
  • You can immediate update the security rules based on wordings, file names and file types.
  
  
  
• Q.16 How often does MailGate update the virus signatures?
  
  • You can control the updating frequency by the pre-defined schedule or you can immediate conduct the updating yourself.
  
  
  
• Q.17 How big is the MailGate program?
  
  • Less than 1 MB.
  
  
  
• Q.18 What are the minimum hardware and space requirements for installing MailGate on my email server?
  
  • It depends on the volume of e-mail.
  
  

• Integrates with existing Sendmail Mail Server / External Black Box Solution
  
• Support Up to 6 Antivirus Scanning Engine
  
• Extra Rules to filter by File Type, File Name, File Size, File Content
  
• Internat User Control
  
• 100% Web base Modification
  
• Easy Administration