Protecting email servers and gateways against spam and viruses

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. 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: PC and Unix based. The enterprise solutions consist of PureMessage for Unix and PureMessage for Windows/Exchange. Each provides a powerful combination of features. A version for small businesses, PureMessage Small Business Edition (SBE), is also available.

Features

Powerful anti-virus protection, anti-spam protection, threat reduction, centralised administration, personalised control and automatic updates.

Minimum hardware requirements

Unix edition
150MB hard disk space (includes space for Perl and sendmail installations)
1GB minimum of memory

Windows/Exchange edition
140MB free disk space
256MB minimum of memory (512MB recommended)

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 and Worms.

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. The 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. Quarantine management is also included. Reporting monitors activity for the message stream and quarantine contents.

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.

Platforms supported

Linux on x86 (Red Hat 6.2 through 9.x; Enterprise Server 2.1, 3.0; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, SUSE Linux 8.0, SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional)
Sun Solaris on Sparc (2.6 or higher)
HP-UX on PA_RISC1.1 (11.0 or higher)
FreeBSD on x86 (4.5 to 4.8)
AIX on RISC (4.3.3 or higher)
Windows 2000 Server/Professional, SP3
Windows 2003 Server (no service pack)
Windows XP Professional, SP1
Exchange 2000, SP3
Exchange 2003 (no service pack)
Windows XP Professional, SP1
Microsoft IIS

If you use an operating system that PureMessage does not currently support, you may wish to try Sophos MailMonitor to protect your email servers and gateways against viruses.