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GFI MailEssentials 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

GFI MailEssentials
GFI MailEssentials
3.4
(11)

Pricing

Starting at €99.00 one time

About GFI MailEssentials

GFI MailEssentials is a cloud-based anti-spam solution that helps small to large enterprises manage spam emails and prevent potential malware threats. It comes with an admin console, which enables users to synchronize critical data such as attachments or keywords and maintain logs of mail flow in a centralized database.

GFI MailEssentials lets businesses configure security settings to block incoming mails containing specific keywords, social security numbers or file extensions. It provides users with an administrative dashboard to view recent updates, logs or email statistics and generate reports on email interactions across the organization. Additionally, managers can utilize the exploit engine to detect malicious email-based Trojan executables and quarantine suspicious files.

GFI MailEssentials facilitates integration with third-party anti-virus engines such as Bitdefender, Avira, Sophos, Kaspersky and Cyren to detect new system threats. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email and other online measures.

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GFI MailEssentials Pricing and Plans

Starting price: €99.00 one time
Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

99.00

one time

No plan information available

    GFI MailEssentials Features

    • Popular features found in Email Security
      Email Attachment Protection
      Encryption
      Spam Blocker
      Spam Quarantine
      Whitelisting/Blacklisting
    • More features of GFI MailEssentials
      Allow/Block List
      Anti Spam
      Anti Virus
      Email Filtering
      Filtering
      Policy Management

    GFI MailEssentials User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    3.4

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    0%

    4

    55%

    3

    27%

    2

    18%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    3.5

    Value for money

    3.3

    Customer support

    3.3

    Functionality

    3.2

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    Matt's profile

    Matt E.

    Verified reviewer

    Consumer Services

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for less than 6 months

    Review source

    Reviewed June 2018

    An OK spam solution

    2

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    2
    Customer support
    2
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Administration is easier then on some of the other spam solution products I've used. Also one of the cheaper spam solutions.
    Cons:
    The filters are sub par at filtering. Even after verifying hardened settings. Too much spam still gets through.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Education Management

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2021

    Great Email security product

    4

    We used GFI MailEssentials to fight SPAM and Email viruses, it served us well for several years and its highly recommended for SMBs

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The software is easy to implement, friendly interface, lots of useful functions and customizations.
    Cons:
    nothing in particular. we didn't face any problems with our setup and the regular updates had been converging most issues.

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    JM

    Jared M.

    Leisure, Travel & Tourism

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2018

    Brain-dead easy to manage, but brain-dead stupid software

    2

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    1
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    2
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I suppose the management interface is generally intuitive, though something as simple as whitelisting an individual address or domain can be stupidly cumbersome. Oh, that email address your manager asked you to whitelist still isn't being allowed through? Better make sure you hit 'apply' in both areas, including the more hidden one not readily apparent from the section you enter the email address. Support is fairly responsive, but I have not once had a serious issue resolved by them and isntead referred to their published knowledge base myself. This is not the fault of their support, but instead limitations of the software itself.
    Cons:
    Where to begin? Extraordinarily limited anti-spam, anti-spoof and antivirus engines cause so much spam to waltz through on an hourly basis. It is an absolute embarassment of a product that is humiliating to our department - we've switched to Mimecast which we hopefully plan to implement in the next few weeks. We were saved by our endpoint antivirus software, mercifully, when an email spoofing our domain recently was sent to nearly every user in the company simultaneous attached with a crypto payload in a word doc. It is inexcuseable for software this poorly functioning to be marketed and sold at the price they are requesting. This may be particular to our environment due to the nature of our business and the tremendous email volume, so a smaller company may have success with it.

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    Shawn B.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    11-50 employees

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed May 2018

    Set it and Forget it AntiSPAM product that we use for most of our non-Office365 Clients

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    2
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The Installation is fairly quick and easy. GFI has a host of add-ons so it makes it easier to piece-meal the products you want to add to your deployment. Love the end-user SPAM/Quarantine Access. The Daily Digest feature is excellent, clients like the reports they get daily.
    Cons:
    Can get cumbersome if you start going into the minutiae. The Licensing part I'm not very fond of, if you go over the quantity the software simply stops working after a week or so of grace-period. I would prefer if they sent email reminders when License renewal is closer. Customer Service is hard to get a hold of.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Hospital & Health Care

    501-1000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2018

    System administrator

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It's very easy to install system. Mostly the default configuration works out of the box without any problems.
    Cons:
    The system is somewhat easy to use. They have a lot of limitations when you try to do advanced configuration load or reset spam lists.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Medical Devices

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed December 2023

    Anti Spam / Email security is lack luster

    3

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    GFI Mailessentials was very cheap compared to other solutions.
    Cons:
    The protection it covers when compared to the current threats in the market

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    ET

    Eric T.

    Verified reviewer

    Utilities

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed February 2018

    We have used GFI Mail essentials for the past two years to archive our email for our users to access

    4

    The ability to quickly and effectively archive our emails and retrieve them via a simple web browser gui.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It has performed very well as far as the archiving of our emails. Our users are able to retrieve their own emails for themselves therefore reducing the administration overhead of doing the same tasks ourselves.
    Cons:
    There are only a few gripes and most are minor. One being the amount of segmented archives that seem to get created. Integration with our domain was a little tricky.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Information Services

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed February 2019

    Spam Filter

    3

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    We used this product for few years and then moved to another product . When we used, it worked okay. Open source was the plus that I noticed and self hosted is another.
    Cons:
    We had some issues with legit emails getting tagged as false positives.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    51-200 employees

    Used other for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2019

    SPAM filter

    4

    I used to use this before switching to Barracuda.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    This is a good solution and fairly easy to use
    Cons:
    Doesn't scale up well in my opinion, hard when you want to managed a large system.

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    JR

    John R.

    Accounting

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2018

    A bit finicky

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    2
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Once you get it configured it does a great job of filtering out spam.
    Cons:
    Loves to crash in the middle of the night and fill users boxes with spam.

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