XWall stops spam in front of Exchange

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 June 2009 12:58 Written by Peter Banz

Stopping spam before it gets to the Microsoft Exchange server is the preferred method of dealing this Internet bandwidth abuse. The XWall Spam and Email filter processes the incoming email and can delete or hold spam for a user definable amount of time. Your Exchange server stays free from spam pollution. Considering that 80%-90% of all emails are spam XWall can dramatically improve your email message flow. XWall is compatible with all Microsoft Exchange servers including 2008 and the Small Business series.

Our short video to will give you a good idea what XWall can do for your Exchange server or any other SMTP mail server. Just sit back and click play.

XWall release 3.44

Monday, 09 March 2009 13:04 Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 12:27 Written by Administrator

The latest XWall release allows you to add comments in the ini file. Seasoned XWall users will love this option. As example you can add notes to an IP address so it makes still sense to you tomorrow morning. There are a lot of other new features that makes administration easier. Download it Today. 

• New: Support for GBK ( Chinese ) codepage
• New: Block outbound messages that are not from an internal domain ( OutboundBlockAddressOnlyInternal=True )
• New: Optional startup delay in the case the virus scanner or DNS server is not starting fast enough ( StartupDelayFresh=5 )
• New: XWall.ini allows comments using a semicolon
• New: Comment for every list field
• New: Send information message after startup ( SendStartup=True )
• New: Send information message when there was a warning after startup ( SendStartupWarn=True )
• New: Hide SLS service info in error message; needed for Trend Micro Reputation Service ( InboundESMTPHideSLSInfo=True )
• New: Warning when ini is read-only or no read-write ACL
• New: Heuristic checks for text obfuscation with HTML tags in plain text
• New: Verbose logging for disclaimer ( VerboseDisclaimer=True )
• New: The logfile shows which e-mail template was used to block an e-mail address
• New: Recommended SLS/RBL b.barracudacentral.org
• Chg: yahoogroups.com removed from default exclusion
• Chg: Update of X-Mailer in Options->Blocking->Header
• Chg: Files for disclaimer can be in any directory, default is XWall directory
• Chg: UAC is requireAdministrator for MBSever.exe and highestAvailable for MBAdmin.exe
• Fix: Ignoring MIME Content-Disposition header fields with longer value like "filenamexxx"
• Fix: White List was not properly updated when the message was sent to more than one recipient
• Fix: Exchange 2007 is not able to decode a MIME subject with more than 225 bytes word len
• Fix: Disclaimer and S/MIME address with a star was not working as expected
• Fix: Reassemble message uses codepage UTF-7 when the original codepage is US-ASCII, but the text contains non-ASCII characters
• Fix: DNS validation is repeated several times in the case of a DNS error
• Fix: Manifest and UAC elevation also for MBServer.exe
• Fix: ESMTP AUTH LOGIN with Microsoft .NET Framework (Namespace System.Net.Mail)
• Fix: non-delivery report for a message with a 4xx and 5xx error showed the reason for the 4xx rather then 5xx error