Bin Drai Enterprises, a real estate leasing company from Dubai, was suffering from spam emails, phishing attacks, and ransomware infections. Proxmox Mail Gateway stood out as the email security solution that met the company’s demands for flexibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Bin Drai Enterprises is a real estate leasing company headquartered in Dubai with more than 100 employees. The company uses the Zimbra Collaboration mail server with several domains and hundreds of mailboxes.

Due to the absence of an effective email filtering solution, Bin Drai Enterprises encountered issues including a high volume of spam, phishing attacks, malware, and ransomware infections. This affected the efficiency of its business operations and posed a significant security threat to the company.

Nandhakumar Natesan, IT Manager at Bin Drai Enterprises, learned about Proxmox Mail Gateway through Jose Mejo from Saturn ME, an Authorized Proxmox Reseller Partner.

Scalable, flexible, and cost-effective

“The integration of Proxmox Mail Gateway into our existing infrastructure based on Zimbra Collaboration was effortless”, says Nandhakumar Natesan. “Everything worked from the start. The solution is scalable to our needs and its open-source nature eliminates licensing costs.”

“The web-based interface of Proxmox Mail Gateway provides us with easy access to flexible email filtering with real-time threat protection, comprehensive logging, and quarantine features as well as the object-oriented rule system for further customization of our mail flow.”

The implementation process

“When we started with the implementation of Proxmox Mail Gateway, we first defined the system and network requirements such as the VM specifications and the configuration of our firewall. Then we installed Proxmox Mail Gateway as a virtual appliance on our system and configured basic functions via the web interface.”

“After the initial setup of our mail relay domains and the network configuration including reverse DNS entries for outgoing mail, we defined rules for spam and virus filtering, enabled TLS for opportunistic encryption of email transmission, and configured the authentication of all users on our Zimbra Collaboration mail server. Finally, we changed our public MX entry to point to Proxmox Mail Gateway. This way, only clean emails reach our mail server.”

After the deployment of Proxmox Mail Gateway there was an extensive user acceptance test to ensure that all requirements for the project were met.

A robust and reliable email security solution

Nandhakumar Natesan is satisfied with the results: “Proxmox Mail Gateway stands out as a powerful and efficient open-source email security solution that effectively filters spam, viruses, phishing attacks, and other email-borne threats.”

“The system is remarkably stable. Consistent updates from Proxmox ensure security, stability, and robust performance improvements by continuously reducing the amount of spam delivered to users.”

“In our experience, Proxmox Mail Gateway is a top-tier email filtering solution that offers exceptional value for organizations looking to secure their email communications and an excellent choice for IT administrators seeking reliability, flexibility, and control.”

Nandhakumar Natesan
IT Manager

About Bin Drai Enterprises
Established in 1980, Bin Drai Enterprises is a real estate leasing company that specializes in the acquisition, management, and leasing of residential, commercial, or industrial properties to tenants for fixed or variable rental income. The company is headquartered in Dubai and has a staff of more than 100 employees.