Hej,
is there a roadmap for the XGs for the next major versions and the planned functions?
Thanks.
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Hej,
is there a roadmap for the XGs for the next major versions and the planned functions?
Thanks.
Then what are the changes in 17.5? In the last roadmap I have seen there were 17.2, 17.3 and 18, no 17.5.
With best regards,
Steppenwolf
Hi Steppenwolf!
17.5 beta should be already available in October.
Quick overview of the key new features in v17.5:
Never heard of 17.5.b unless someone in marketing invented the term.
In short, the originally planned 17.2 and 17.3 with lists of features have been replaced with 17.5 and the list of features above.
Also see community.sophos.com/.../xg-firewall-v17-5-is-coming-soon where they mention "We are expecting the beta to be available in the coming days".
Sorry to hear the UTM/EXIM is the point of comparison for mail filtering, since UTM/EXIM:
Email filtering seems like the weakest component in UTM, so if XG is reaching up to meet UTM, it is reaching up to a pretty low goal.
Hello
Is it still the same with EXIM version 4.91 ? Those first three items are deal killers for me. I read that DKIM can be implemented on EXIM by calling external services. Same for anti-spam et.c. I do not know yet how EXIM was implement on XG. Possibly it was done by Sophos already ...
Paul Jr
Well ... Let's start :) !!!
This guy here: https://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=55929 as somewhat integrated EXIM with OpenDMARC.
I haven't checked yet, but maybe we have something equivalent in XG now in v17.5.
Paul Jr
Currently, I am a UTM user, but I bounce over to the XG group occasionally to see if a migration would be worth the pain.
I read the EXIM documentation to see if I could do something under the covers to improve on the UTM SPAM filter, which is where I realized that EXIM did not examine the FROM header at all. That exercise was at least a year ago, so it is possible that the situation may change in a newer release. EXIM has a couple of technologies for writing filter definitions. It may be possible to create Reverse DNS filters using the EXIM filter mechanisms, but I could not easily see where these files existed inside UTM. If I had found them, I assumed that the UTM interface would overwrite them, and I knew that any under-the-cover manipulation would make my device unsupportable, so I gave up.
I already had another product that is my primary mail filter so we have kept it going. UTM/EXIM provides a second look which captures some things that the primary device misses.
Sophos Email Appliance appears to be Sophos' flagship mail product. It does DMARC enforcement, but does not have Reverse DNS filtering, so I was underwhelmed.
I have been looking for a product that does everything that I think a minimally-acceptable mail product should do. So far, the solution will cost about 8 times what I am paying now for my primary mail device. I do not think I can sell that expense up the management chain. So I am still looking.