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MDeamon - Features 1

Groupware Functions in MDaemon
MDaemon 8 comes with both new and enhanced groupware features designed to support collaborative work. Integrated into MDaemon's WorldClient web mail platform, these groupware capabilities allow you to share calendars, contacts, task lists and email messages, plus anything you can put into personal email folders. The updated calendar allows you to set both one-time appointments and recurring events on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly intervals. You can also add attendance lists and send email notifications, all from the calendar. Overall, the new calendaring and scheduling functions of WorldClient make time management both fast and easy.

Sender Policy Framework in MDaemon 7.1+
Email address spoofing enables the widespread proliferation of spam and viruses while hiding the true identities of those responsible. Spoofers use email addresses of other people without their permission or knowledge. In this way, anyone can send email pretending to be anyone else. Beginning with version 7.1, MDaemon offers SPF as one of its security options. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard security protocol designed to detect spoofed email addresses. SPF can process the incoming email prior to downloading the message, therefore, saving you processing time and bandwidth.

Address Book Sync
Deploying a common address book for all users within an email domain provides the advantage of consistent information and the efficiency of centralized maintenance. The application-specific address books for Mircosoft Outlook and Outlook Express often work against sharing information with other software packages. For its WorldClient web mail service, MDaemon 6.5 addresses this problem by using industry-standard XML technology for global address books. By using MDaemon’s free ComAgent tool, each Windows users can synchronize their personal contact information between their Outlook (MAPI) or Outlook Express (WAB) address book and the XML address book. This means the contact information for their Windows-based email client and the web-based WorldClient are the same.

Calendaring Group Scheduling
The MDaemon Calendar combines the functions of a personal calendar and a wall calendar in one package, only it's better than both. Because this software calendar is convenient and easy to use, it is more likely to see real-life action within a workgroup than either of its paper predecessors. In addition, its adherence to standards enables interoperability with other systems.

Content Filtering
Content filtering on the server side makes sure filtering gets done. Generally speaking, technical people understand filtering rules better than everyday users. The filtering facilities of MDaemon are diverse, fluid and easy to learn. Senders, receivers and administrators can be notified of filtering actions by using personalised and detailed messages. Filtering can reduce email delivery costs by eliminating undesirable messages and cutting down on bandwidth usage.

Email Gateways
An email gateway collects, stores and forwards messages to a primary domain server. A gateway typically has no individual accounts. Email gateways can help both large and small enterprises solve some of the problems inherent to Internet email services. For a small organisation, a gateway can make a private email domain affordable. This is because a service provider supplies the gateway at a reasonable cost by sharing the hardware and software with other smaller ventures. The primary domains in such cases can have either permanent or dialup connections to the Internet. Larger establishments can employ security-hardened gateways to provide protection and content filtering for their more vulnerable enterprise email systems. Gateways can also be configured to supply automatic realtime mail storage backup when a primary domain goes offline for any reason. One copy of MDaemon can simultaneously operate gateways for dozens of email domains, even while running a primary domain server of its own.