Step 4: What E-mail Services Do You Want to Provide?

In addition to the basic SMTP service, IMail provides other services that you can start and stop at one source - the Service Administration page. Individual online help files are available that explain each service in more depth. Services provided with the installation are:

• Symantec Antivirus Scan Engine (available separately) provides automatic protection from viruses, worms, and trojan horses.
• Bit-Defender Antivirus (available separately). provides fully integrated proactive protection against viruses, trojans, or other potentially malicious codes.
• Premium Antispam Service (available with IMail Premium or IMail Plus) provides Commtouch Advanced Security Daemon (a.k.a. ctasd™) a plug-and-play email-borne spam and malware outbreak detection daemon that combines your current core messaging network infrastructure with advanced detection and classification capabilities.
• IMail Web Calendar Service(Old Web Calendar) lets users access Web Calendaring, which allows them to store schedules, set appointments, and send e-mail date reminder information using a Web browser. This service is still in place for access to the old Web Calendar which will be phased out and replaced with the new Web Calendar that no longer requires a service and works directly with the WorkgroupShare databases.

  Note: The new Web Calendar does not require a service. It is controlled at the domain and user level for access.

• Ipswitch Instant Messaging Server (available with IMail Premium, or separately) lets users converse instantaneously and store past conversations.
• POP3 service lets users retrieve mail and send mail using clients like Qualcomm Eudora and Microsoft Outlook. With POP3, user mail is usually stored on the user's PC.
• IMAP4 service lets users read mail from the server and send mail using clients like Qualcomm Eudora, and Microsoft Outlook. With IMAP4, mail is usually stored on the mail server.

  Note: IMail Web Client no longer uses IMAP, it accesses the mail server directly.

• IMail Queue Manager Service controls the flow of messages through the mail queue, and is a component of the SMTP delivery process.
• IMail Sys Logger Service lets users view the mail queue log files (also known as the Spool Directory).
• LDAP service uses a client/server architecture to publish user information (called "attributes") on the server and provide access to the information from LDAP-enabled clients.
• Ipswitch WorkgroupShare Service (available with IMail Premium) automatically imports contacts and contact lists from previous versions of Web Messaging or existing versions of Microsoft Outlook into the new IMail Web Messaging client.