Welcome to the New MPP
February 27, 2008
I invite you to check out the new web home of MPP at messagepartners.com and to re-explore all that MPP has to offer. Besides our new web site we have entirely revamped our GUI Interface with the release of MPP Manager. MPP Manager provides archive review and retrieval management, spam quarantine management and graphical management of MPP configurations. These tools and our renewed focus on the email gateway and compliance make MPP even more relevant and interesting.
Thank you for taking the time to re-examine MPP and I look forward to your comments.
Michael Katz
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Email Filtering With MPP
February 6, 2008
MPP provides a multi-layer defense system that combine SMTP checks, embedded intelligence and the best anti spam filtering and reputation technology available into one easy-t0-use, scalable solution.
MPP has a full-featured spam quarantine management system, MPP Manager, that can easily be customized and translated to your requirements.
Selected MPP Antispam Tools:
- Reputation Checks
- Automatic Black Lists
- SMTP Host Black Lists
- Spam Traps
- Content Scanning Plug-in Modules
- Static Content Filters
- MIME Checks
- Address Verification
- Greylisting
- Thresholds
- Rate Limiting
- Per-User Spam WBL’s and Actions
- MUCH MORE!
MPP for CommuniGate Pro
February 6, 2008
MPP is an essential tool in keeping Communigate Pro users free from the alarming
rise of spam, image spam, viruses, and phishing. MPP provides many advantages over
standard CGP plug-ins for the high-accuracy high-capacity needs of service providers.
These include:
- Greater scalability
- Less bandwidth required
- The ability to control virus and spam settings from a single easy-to-use
GUI - Cut costs by allowing end-users and domain admins to manage their own spam settings and
quarantines - The crucial capacity to adapt and defend against the growing criminalization
of spam - Complete round-the-clock support from MPP’s highly capable team of global support engineers
MPP utilizes a powerful policy engine that allows you to assign different service configurations and scanners to different groups of users without wasting your valuable time decoding CGP’s arcane rules. Also, policy membership is stored in your LDAP subscriber directory which enables the quick and easy provisioning of new services.
Our Webmin module provides comprehensive management including centralized spam and virus quarantine management, log monitoring, configuration
of all options and much more.
MPP vs. CommuniGate Pro Plug-in’s Comparison
| Feature | MPP | CGP |
| Directory Integrated Policy Engine | Yes | No |
| Unified GUI Manager for all Scanners | Yes | No |
| Virus Sccanners | F-PROT, Sophos, Kaspersky, ClamAV, Nod32 McAfee | McAfee, Sophos, KAV |
| Spam Scanners | Mailshell, Cloudmark, Commtouch, SpamAssassin | MailShell Cloudmark |
| Multiple Spam Thresholds Per Scanner | Yes | No |
| Integrated WBL processing | Yes | No |
| Email Archive with full text search | Yes | No |
| Unified Logging | Yes | No |
| Ability to mix and match commercial and open source scanners | Yes | No |
| Multi-threaded Processing Engine | Yes | No, simple perl scripts |
| End-User Quarantine Management | Yes | No |
| Use same license on Email Gateway | Yes | No |
| Attachment Management | Yes | No |
MPP Postfix Policy Server
February 5, 2008
Postfix rocks and MPP makes it better. MPP is the one must-have tool for Postfix administrators because it solves so many security and compliance problems.
- Dramatically improve spam detection and throughput over AmavisD or Mailscanner.
- Complete quarantine management for SpamAssassin with multi-domain support
- Our integrated policy server and content filter ensures that multi-recipient mail is always handled correctly
- Satisfy everyone with configuration policies based on email address, domain, IP or direction.
- Solve your compliance problems with standards based, searchable email archives, content based surveillance, multi-lingual signature support, attachment stripping and much more.
- Save time with a fully supported solution for email filtering and archival.
- Spam Filtering - End the deluge of spam with MPP’s multi-layer antispam defenses - commercial and open source. In addition to supporting numerous pre-queue checks and content scanners like SpamAssassin, MPP can easily add layered protection from leading antispam technology providers.
- Virus Filtering- Stop email threats dead in their tracks by arming your company with the best open source and commercial antivirus technology available.
- Pre-Queue Checks - Per-Domain Greylisting, spam traps, dynamic black lists, RBL’s, address verification and more.
- Quarantine ReviewSlash admin costs by giving end-users control over their spam settings and quarantines.
- Compliance - Email archival and retrieval, content filtering, surveillance, disclaimers and more.
- Super SMTP Relays - Postfix is hugely popular on SMTP relays and MPP is the perfect compliment. MPP delivers unmatched spam filtering performance and our policy engine makes everything per-domain. Supercharge your tired open source relays with MPP, the perfect AmavisD upgrade.
- Compliance - Email archival and retrieval, content filtering, surveillance, disclaimers and more.
- Email Utility - Strip attachments, add disclaimers, limit attachment sizes, access-control lists, forwarding, content filter routing.
- Cloudmark 2 API implemented
- MySQL code rewritten and new MySQL schema has been made default. New SQL scheme
provides better scalability for multi-domain environments and facilitates distributed
databases. -
Qreview v3 is included in installation package. QReview provides web based access to
spam quarantines and email archives. -
Added defer action for Thresholds / Autoblacklists. This feature introduces rate limiting,
as an abusive sender will no longer have their email blocked, but will see
an SMTP defer if Postfix Policy Server is in use, or their email will be deferred
in the mail queue. - Access Control Lists are made case-insensitive
- Increased logging information by adding missing codes to decision path in log.
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Configurable sender and recipient(s) for threshold alerts. Thresholds are useful
to identify outbound spammers, heavy inbound senders or to automatically black list
repeat, high volume spammers. Traditionally threshold alerts were only sent to the
postmaster, now the admin can set the address for alerts. -
Automatic Client Host Black Listing of spam trap offenders. Spam traps are
regular expression based template addresses that are set for spammers. If
spammers hit the templates their IP addresses are automatically added to a black list.
Traditionally MPP spamtrap offenders were blocked on a per-group basis, now administrators
can choose to block them globally for all policy groups. This increases efficiency
in MPP processing and causes an automatic disconnect of spammers. A single spam trap
can block hundreds of thousands of dictionary attacks email in a day. -
MPP has an incredibly powerful Postfix Policy Server and 3.6 offers Postfix olicy Server improvements.
3.6 offers better support of a standalone policy server by sending OK is sent instead of FILTER if
standalone mode is in use. 3.6 increases scalability by settings policy_threads_max to
400 by default and is limiting max threads to 400. Interoperability is improved
by changing OK response to DUNNO for Policy Server. - Dynamic threading for Postfix Policy Server - Automatically create and destroy threads based on load.
- Internal disk queue for quarantine and archival - Remove direct writing to DB under congestion.
- Hierarchical quarantine/archival - MPP can use esmtp to transport quarantine/archive traffic to a centralized instance of MPP that then writes to DB
- International charachter support for signatures/disclaimers
- Loading of mppd.conf.xml from stdout, we now provide a script to load mppd.conf.xml from a tftp server and send it to stdout for mppd to use.
- Custom Reject Notices and API - Write custom reject notices or use MPP as standalone scanning service that can be implemented in scripts.
- 2 new macros for maildir storage and small maildir fixes. Macros are for first/second letter for user part/domain part of mail address: %U1%, %U2%, %D1%, %D2%.
- Whitelists by IP for specific features of greylists, spam traps and tresholds/auto-blacklists
- Custom spam scoring - Assign scores to RBL sites and spam engines as an alternative to first-match actions
- McAfee UVScan command line scanner is now supported
- Improved MySQL formats for large scale spam quarantine
Download a free trial of MPP today or contact us for a price quote.
MPP and Open Source
February 5, 2008
The open source community provides many great component technologies like email servers, databases, directories, spam scanners, virus scanners and more. MPP takes all these different components and integrates them into a comprehensive email security and compliance solution.
MPP is easier to use, faster, and better supported than open source integration tools like AmavisD, MailScanner, Exiscan or QmailScanner. MPP will dramatically increase system performence, save valuable admin time, and our policy engine will allow you to realize the full potential of email.
One of the key issues with open source security is their total reliance on the effectiveness of SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Today’s email attacks often use the most unexpected tactics, and often require the most innovative methods to stop them, which is why we created MPP to be entirely scanner independent.
With MPP you can layer scanners, you can incorporate both commercial and open source technologies, and essentially allows you to use whichever tool works best to keep email up and running. And since MPP allows you to apply scanners, along with our many other configurations, on a per-group or per-policy basis, you can selectively customize performence for just a few domains or for the entire server.
Read the AmavisD Replacement Whitepaper
MPP International Partners
February 5, 2008
International Partners
USA Regional Partners
California
Aglow Technologies
Westminster, CA+1 (714) 534-2032
kthoo@aglowtechnologies.com
http://aglowtechnologies.com
Europe
United Kingdom
Mooore Secure IT
144 High Street
Epping
Essex
CM16 4AS
tel. +44 (0) 1480 896334
sales@MooreSecureIT.com
http://www.mooresecureit.co.uk
Poland
DAGMA SP. Z O.O.
UL. PSZCZYŃSKA 15
40-478 KATOWICE
Contact: Katarzyna Goch
tel. 0048 32 259 11 00
fax. 0048 32 259 11 90
mpp@dagma.pl
http://dagma.pl
Slovenia
Sisplet
Dolenjska c. 76
1000 Ljubljana
Contact: DAMJAN VEBER
phone: +386 1 428 94 05
mpp@sisplet.com
www.messagepartners.si
Germany
bitbone AG
Martin-Luther-Strasse 5a
97072 Wuerzburg
phone: 0931-250993-22
fax: 0931-250993-98
sales@bitbone.de
http://bitbone-sd.de
Netherlands
NLcom
Maastricht
Phone: 043 - 3500190
info@nlcom.nl
http://nlcom.nl
Hungary
Yellow Cube Kft.
Budapest, Hungary
Contact: Bódis Ákos
Web Form
messagepartners.hu
Turkey
Stratus Bilisim Sistemleri Ticaret AS.
Mebusan Yokusu, Kopuzlar Han 42/2
Kabatas-34433 Istanbul/ Turkey
phone: 0212 251 51 80
info@stratus.com.tr
www.stratus.com.tr
Italy
ANSWER SRL
Sede Legale: Via Rosario Livatino 9 - 42100 - Reggio Emilia (RE)
Sede Operativa: Via M.K. Gandhi 22 - 42100 - Reggio Emilia (RE)
Tel: +39 0522 286545
Fax: +39 0522 286233
Cel: +39 335 5278936
http://www.answervad.it
South America
Brazil
Protagon Data Security
Rua São Domingos, 159 - Barreiro
Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais,
Cep 30642-050 - Brasil
Contact: Alessandra Lopes
Pabx: 0xx31 3384 4004 (Brasil)
Phone: +55 31 3384 4004 (Latin America)
comercial@protagon.com.br
http://www.protagan.com.br
Peru
OPEN LATAM S.A.C.
Lima, Peru
Telefonos +51 41 242-9848 | 447-3227
info@openlatam.com
Australia and New Zealand
Australia
Plug & Play Computers and Ezylink Internet
202 Princes hwy
Sylvania, NSW, 2224
Phone: (02) 9544 6911 Fax: (02) 9544 6795
http://mpp.ezylink.net.au
mpp@ezylink.net.au
New Zealand
Open Systems Specialists
Level 2, 18 Normanby Road, Auckland
Contact: Ian Soffe
Phone: +64 9 630 4800
Fax: +64 9 630 4880
info at oss.co.nz”
http://www.oss.co.nz
Africa
South Africa
iBound
Hillcrest
phone: +27317659973
info@ibound.net
ibound.net
Asia
Sri Lanka
SCS International (SCSin)
Rathmalana, Sri Lanka.
Phone: +94 115 673510
Fax: + 94 11 56 70 148
info@scsin.com
http://scsin.com
Hong Kong
Tedgeco
Contact: Joe Yau
Phone: (852) 2356-9992
Fax: (852) 2356-7757
info@tedgeco.com
http://www.tedgeco.com
MPP for Postfix
February 5, 2008
MPP’s for Postfix is truly unique as the only integrated Postfix Policy Server and post-queue content filter. That means MPP offers unmatched flexibility for spam filtering, compliance and email utility applications.
MPP v3
February 4, 2008
Integrated Postfix Policy Server
We are excited to announce that MPP now features an integrated Postfix Policy Server. Our Postfix policy protocol allows Postfix to delegate access decisions to a policy server during the SMTP transaction.
Historically, MPP has been a post-queue content filter, but with this upgrade MPP can now
control whether an email is rejected pre-queue or processed post-queue. This capability, which intelligently decides between pre or post queue filterings based on the characteristics of the email, easily makes MPP the most versatile content filter for Postfix available.
Also, MPP’s powerful policy engine enables the configuration of a great number of our features on a per-policy basis. If an email arrives for a single recipient and the email has been blacklisted by the group policy or receiver, the email can be rejected pre-queue, but if a multi-recipient email arrives with two policy matches, then the email must be accepted and processed post-queue.
No other Postfix filter that we know of has this superior capability.
GUI Redesign
The MPP GUI has been completely redesigned with a new look and reorganized controls giving it a more intuitive and intelligent functionality.
Body Stripping
MPP can strip any MIME part of an email, place the content on an ftp or http server, and replace the original MIME part with a link to the file. MPP has multiple logic criteria to match based on filename, size, type, etc.
This is useful for reducing mailbox sizes by centrally storing attachments and also gives a company much better control over their confidential documents.
Thresholds
MPP can detect and report users that send too much email or too much spam in specified intervals.
Sun Java Systems Messaging Server
MPP now supports the Sun Java Systems Messaging Server, an email server that is used by many large service providers.
Logging Enhancements
MPP supports syslog for centralized logging. For our proprietary, integrated logs MPP supports splitting log files based on size, time or on reload.
Per-Policy Group RBL’s
MPP now supports real-time black hole lists on a per-policy basis. When combined with our Postfix Policy Server MPP can easily enforce per-domain SMTP policy.
New Platforms, Operating Systems and Distributions
MPP now supports FreeBSD6, Mac Intel platforms, Debian, and we have introduced new builds for newer distributions of Linux that use GCC greater than 3.3. Also, installation scripts have been significantly overhauled to ease installation.
LMTP Support
MPP now supports LMTP for per-user status for Postfix, Exim and Sun JSMS.
Minor Enhancements
Defer action for scanning error, qmail connection timers, IP identitity extracted from qmail and sendmail,
MPP v3.6
February 4, 2008
MPP 3.6 Feature List
Please see the release notes for more detailed information about bug fixes and minor updates
Previous Releases
MPP v3.4
February 4, 2008
MPPv34 addresses issues of scalability, functionality and usability.
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