--- title: "GFI MailEssentials Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of GFI MailEssentials Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/anti-spam/gfi-mailessentials-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Email Security Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/email-security/) / GFI MailEssentials Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/anti-spam/gfi-mailessentials-profile/alternatives/) # GFI MailEssentials Review From €99/one time 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews ## Overview GFI MailEssentials 3.4 [(11)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/anti-spam/gfi-mailessentials-profile/#reviews) Pricing Starting at €99.00 one time Top Alternatives ### 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. 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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. --- ### Great Email security product - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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 - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Brain-dead easy to manage, but brain-dead stupid software - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Jared M. - Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### 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. --- ### Set it and Forget it AntiSPAM product that we use for most of our non-Office365 Clients - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Shawn B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### System administrator - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Anti Spam / Email security is lack luster - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Medical Devices - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros GFI Mailessentials was very cheap compared to other solutions. #### Cons The protection it covers when compared to the current threats in the market --- ### We have used GFI Mail essentials for the past two years to archive our email for our users to access - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Eric T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Utilities - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The ability to quickly and effectively archive our emails and retrieve them via a simple web browser gui. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Spam Filter - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### SPAM filter - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I used to use this before switching to Barracuda. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### A bit finicky - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: John R. - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### 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. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 11 Reviews Load More Reviews ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice