We are very happy to announce the immediate availability of our newest Syneto UTM release: version 1.3.0. We put a great effort into developing it, so we hope you will be pleased with the results.

The main focus of the 1.3.0 release is the email functionality. We received signals from our customers that configuring the email proxy was a little… difficult, so we spent a lot of time to make it easier and usable. We fully redesigned the email configuration pages, united some features, removed unused settings and merged others. The result is a more comprehensible interface that we think you’ll enjoy working with.

Since performance is an ever-growing issue, we took the necessary steps to improve the quality of our engines and the quantity of mail they could process. By partnering with Commtouch, we obtained both. Their global IP reputation engine filters out most of the email by only analyzing the source IP (increased performance), while their antispam/antivirus engines weed out the remaining threats (increased quality).

To top everything off, we implemented new email-related features that you asked for. The email digest sends a daily email message to every person that has quarantined malware, enabling for its easy deletion/retrieval. Enhanced email reporting was added as a way to get a clear picture of the UTM’s function (top senders, top receivers, top blocked IPs etc), and the executive summary functionality allows managers to receive daily reports via email, so that they too can keep track of what is going on inside the network.

See full release notes for 1.3.0 on the knowledge base.