Step 4: What Email 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 Mail-Filters' language-aware, automatically updated anti-spam technology.
• IMail Monitor Service (IMonitor) lets the mail administrator monitor the status of all IMail Services (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Disk Space, Web Calendaring, Queue Manager, LDAP, and IMonitor.).
• IMail Web Calendar Service lets users access Web Calendaring, which allows them to store schedules, set appointments, and send email date reminder information using a Web browser.
• Ipswitch Instant Messaging Server (available with IMail Premium only) 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.