MDaemon is widely deployed as a very effective antispam/antivirus gateway to Exchange. This document details the steps required to install and configure MDaemon for use as an email security gateway.

With wireless access, MDaemon users can send and receive emails any time, from any location, through their Pocket PC's or Internet-enabled mobile phones. MDaemon is making mobile email accessible to small and mid-sized enterprises, at no additional cost.

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)is an an open protocol for protecting email users against email address identity theft and email message content tampering. MDaemon offers an easy to use and complete implementation of DKIM for the Windows platform.

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.

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.

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, authorized 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.

Viruses cause billions of dollars (U.S.) of damage each year through downtime, lost productivity and recovery efforts. MDaemon AntiVirus is a complete virus checker with automated update capabilities for its scanning engine and virus signature files. When coupled with other preventative measures, MDaemon AntiVirus can reduce or, possibly, eliminate the encroachment of viruses into your office. It can also prevent the accidental sending of viruses from your business to other people. In addition to signature files, MDaemon AntiVirus uses heuristic detection methods, which examine emails and attachments for “virus-like” characteristics. MDaemon AntiVirus is a plug-in that runs as an independent service for Alt-N’s MDaemon email server.

The catalog is an often overlooked yet extremely useful tool for distributing documents and files. Catalogs are quick, structured and more secure than FTP or HTTP servers. They can contain any type of file from pictures and documents, to application programs and scripts. E-catalogs have the added benefit of being easy to change, so the content can be current to the moment. MDaemon contains tools for creating, editing and deleting catalogs. They are easy for beginners and powerful for more advanced administrators.

While maintaining user account records on MDaemon is easy, it can be redundant. Redundancy possibly occurs if your enterprise also keeps computerized information about employees or email customers, for example. Redundant record keeping wastes time and adds the risk of information being inconsistent among various data sources. MDaemon 6.5 addresses this problem by allowing account records to be maintained in any database with an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface. MDaemon 6.5 also has the ability to access mailing list records through an ODBC connection.