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MDeamon - Features 2

MDaemon Standard vs. Pro
MDaemon comes in two versions — Standard and Pro. MDaemon Standard offers basic email service built around an SMTP server for transmitting mail and a POP3 server for distributing messages to users. The professional version adds high-end features for the administrator and email subscriber.

Public Folders Concepts and Applications
Email public folders promote and ease the centralised sharing of information. Discussion groups, announcements and work group inboxes can all be facilitated by email public folders. Public folders can be open to anyone with an account on the supporting mail server. Access can also be limited to smaller groups. Message status flags for public folders can be unique to each user or shared among all members of a group. The email administrator creates public folders and assigns access privileges. MDaemon supports public folders for email. When coupled with the InsightConnector, public folders can also be used for Outlook calendaring and direct document sharing. Public email is a feature of Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) servers.

Security Tools for Spam Control
Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), also known as spam, costs enterprises and individuals billions of pounds each year. It consumes time and resources while delivering content of limited, if any, value. Among the primary tools of spammers are third-party email servers with open relays. This means anyone can send an email through the server to anyone else, even if neither the sender nor the receiver has an account on the server. Spam can also come from authorised users with accounts on a server. To help control spam, modern email servers must have configuration options to stop third party relaying and control access by various other means. All of this must still allow account holders to send and receive mail from remote locations. MDaemon includes the required options to stop unauthorized relays, while permitting account holders to use the server from any location in the world. A server set up to resist spam is also secure from other types of attacks, including break-ins.

MDaemon GroupWare (an alternative to MS Exchange)
MDaemon GroupWare allows enterprises to use all the groupware functions of Microsoft Outlook without the expense of Microsoft Exchange Server. Businesses, charities, schools and individuals use Outlook because of its practical tools for managing time, contacts, documents and email. However, most of Outlook’s best features — including information sharing — work fully only when coupled with Microsoft Exchange, the software publisher’s email server. For many small to mid-sized organizations, Microsoft Exchange remains too expensive because of its hardware, software and licensing requirements, plus the need for highly trained administration personnel. MDaemon GroupWare addresses this issue by releasing the complete set of Outlook features, including all of the sharing functions. MDaemon GroupWare is a client-server product, with components on both the MDaemon server and the client personal computers. It enables the sharing of Outlook folders, calendars and contacts plus all other Outlook “objects”. It allows companies to use the complete features of Outlook with the economy and easy administration of MDaemon.

Web Administration
WebAdmin for MDaemon is email administration software that runs in a web browser. It provides administrative access to the most commonly used system configuration and account settings through any javascript-enabled browser. Through web administration, the system administrator can change settings for the primary domain, plus any sub domains. This includes account administration in any domain. One of the main advantages of web administration is giving domain administrators rights for configuring their own domains and accounts. In addition, individual account holders can change many of their settings. Both system and domain administrators can control who can change what through default and customised settings within their domains.

Fax Management
The fax server puts a digital spin on an old trustworthy analog technology. It sends and receives facsimile transmissions to and from personal computers on a local area network, wide area network or the Internet. It allows users to share fax machines or fax modems or both if they are accessible through the network. RelayFax integrates fax sending and receiving through almost any email server, including Alt-N’s MDaemon email server. Through the RelayFax, authorised email users can send regular email attachments to a mailbox and have them forwarded as industry-standard facsimiles to any fax devices in the world. RelayFax uses client-server technology, with the server running on a network hardware platform and the clients operating on desktop or lap computers.

IMAP and POP Summaries
POP3 and IMAP are two ways of accessing email over the Internet. POP3, the older of the two methods, works well for users who have one computer and who want keep all of their mail on that one computer. IMAP provides server-side storage and manipulation of email. It works better where users have multiple computers and need to be able to access their mail from any of them, plus via the Web. This document explains both protocols and argues softly for the deployment of IMAP.