Now is the time to consider upgrading to AutumnTECH’s Generation Three (GEN3) operating system. GEN3 was release in June of 2007 and has received very positive feedback from our GEN2 upgrade customers. GEN3 utilizes the latest tools for detecting spam including the ability to detect image-based spam and nightly updates to the latest anti-spam rule sets. Upgrading to GEN3 will improve security, accuracy, stability, and most importantly the integrity of your solution. You can choose to upgrade your GEN2 hardware, or trade it in for a new GEN3 appliance for a $400 discount! Contact your reseller or AutumnTECH directly for a pricing quote.

Thank you for your business, we are committed to providing the best anti-spam and anti-virus solutions available.

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AutumnTECH is pleased to announce the release of firmware version 2.3.1 This update is available for download through Webtility under the “Updates” tab. You’ll will need your AutumnTECH provided update username and password. If you have forgotten your credentials, simply reply to this e-mail and we’ll send them to you.

Details of the firmware release:

2.3.1
Tue Sep 18 13:17:00 EDT 2007 xTboy

• Webtility Update: Added the ability to enabled or disable maximum message size limit, see Webtility > Advanced > Update E-mail Engine Settings
• Webtility Update: Added actual date column in message storage folder tables
• Webtility Update: Added the ability to completely disabled e-mail footer text, See Webtility > Advanced > Update Spam Engine Settings

Filename for updating from any previous generation three release: latest-release In addition, you may also setup automatic appliance updating within Webtility > Advanced > Modify System Auto-Update Settings. Enabling auto-update will ensure your appliance will remain up-to-date at all times.

Good Luck!
AutumnTECH Support

P.S.

Did you know that AutumnTECH has released the next generation of Anti-Spam Anti-Virus Software called GEN3? Did you know that you can upgrade your existing hardware OR recycle it back to AutumnTECH for new gear? Did you know that we are currently offering credit back for recycled equipment to help with the cost involved with upgrading to GEN3?

Firmware support will end for major release version 2 on December 31st, 2007, however, support for existing customers will continue as long their support agreements are paid in full.

Upgrading to GEN3 will improve spam detection accuracy, reduce costs associated with storing spam on your production e-mail servers, eliminate the need to maintain up to date spam detection rules, and adds additional layers of filtering to detect more spam and e-mail viruses.

Contact AutumnTECH sales (301-754-0036 www.AutumnTECH.com) or your reseller for more details. Thank you!  

AutumnTECH is pleased to announce the release of firmware version 3.0.2 This update is available for download through Webtility under the “Updates” tab. You’ll will need your AutumnTECH provided update username and password. If you have forgotten your credentials, simply reply to this e-mail and we’ll send them to you.

Details of the firmware release:
Tue Sep 11 12:52:10 EDT 2007 xTboy

• Application Update: Updated ClamAV Anti-Virus Engine to version 0.91.2 This update is considered critical

Filename for updating from any previous generation three release: gen3-release (or directly from release 3.0.1 to 3.0.2: 302update12) In addition, you may also setup automatic appliance updating within Webtility > Advanced > Modify System Auto-Update Settings. Enabling auto-update will ensure your appliance will remain up-to-date at all times.

AutumnTECH Support  

AutumnTECH Releases Generation Three (GEN3)

AutumnTECH is pleased to announce Generation Three (GEN3), the latest version our popular anti-spam anti-virus messaging security solution. GEN3 contains thousands of improvements including updated anti-spam fighting techniques. GEN3 now includes a powerful image-based spam extraction engine which can read the text inside of images and score the image based on the result. In addition, URLs (web links) inside of e-mail can be reviewed for content before delivery. Lastly, accuracy has improved through the use of sa-updating, a daily self updating anti-spam rule engine that downloads and compiles the latest anti-spam rules similar to a anti-virus definition download.

Major GEN3 Functional Improvements Include:

• OpenBSD Operating System updated to 4.1
• Anti-Spam Engine Spamassassin updated to version 3.2.0
• Anti-Virus Engine ClamAV updated to version 0.90.3
• Thttpd web server replaced with Apache 2.2.4
• Added Mysql 5.0 database server
• Updates and improvements to nearly 50 installed software packages
• AutumnTECH Webtility and ldafilter improved for better performance

  Major GEN3 Detection Improvements Include:

• Image Extraction / Scoring
• Per-user quarantine owners can now connect and train via IMAP
• Improved Greylisting
• Improved Bayesian Learning
• More DNS Blacklists (DNSBL)
• Domain Key Identification
• Better Sender Policy Framework
• Manual White / Blacklists
• Spamcop Block Lists (SCBL)
• DCC Checksumming
• Pyzor Digesting
• Vipul's Razor Signatures
• LDAP Recipient Validation
• LDAP Single Login Authentication
• Acceptable / Reject Lists
• Rate Controls
• Virus Checker
• Over 700 Rules-based Scores
• High-Availability Clustering
• POP3 Hosted Downloader / Filtering
• Sender / Recipient Altering
• HTML and Script Mangling
• Single Sign-On
• Embedded URL Redirect Lookup
• Intrusion Detection
• HTTP Proxy Filtering
• Better Webtility web page delivery via Apache including better timeout detection and handling

GEN3 can update an installed version 1 or 2 appliance or can be purchased through new hardware (recommended). For complete details and ordering instructions, link to http://www.autumntech.com/solutions.cfm or call 301-754-0036

Version 2 will continued to be supported and updated until November 11, 2007.