Web Administrator and Client

Web-based Administrator and Client

Ipswitch IMail Server v10.02 and Later

• IMail Server (Administrator) is an Internet standards-based mail server system for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Microsoft Windows 2003. It includes powerful administrative and antispam management tools all accessible via the Internet.
• The redesigned Administrator includes a series of programs that run as services: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP3. These services can be stopped and restarted from a main Service Administration page as well as from their respective pages.
• Ipswitch IMail Server v10.02 and later provides local or remote access to IMail Server administration features via a Web browser. You can administer all e-mail functions, including users, groups, services, shared calendars (IMail Premium only) and contacts (IMail Premium only), and antispam and anti-virus settings (separate add-on feature).
• Dictionary Attack A method used to break security systems, specifically password-based security systems, in which the attacker systematically tests all possible passwords beginning with words that have a higher possibility of being used, such as names and places. The word "dictionary" refers to the attacker exhausting all of the words in a dictionary in an attempt to discover the password. Dictionary attacks are typically done with software instead of an individual manually entering each password. Also,  an e-mail spamming technique in which the spammer sends out thousands or millions of e-mails with randomly generated addresses using combinations of letters added to known domain names in the hopes of reaching a percentage of actual e-mail addresses. For example, a dictionary attack list might begin with john@yahoo.com, john1@yahoo.com, john2@yahoo.com, and so on until all possible combinations of letters and numbers has been exhausted. Options provide settings to secure your IMail Server from attacker security breaches on passwords and e-mail addresses.
• Spam protection provides the ability to put the IP address of a spammer into the Control Access list for a certain amount of time to keep the system from just reconnecting. Once the time period expires, the IP address is removed from the access list and is permitted to send mail again.

User Interface

A multi-featured main Web page allows easy administrative access to users, domains, collaboration settings (IMail Premium only) for shared calendars and contacts, services configuration, log viewing and management, as well as the ability to switch between installed Ipswitch products via both hyperlinks and tabs.

IMail Web Messaging

Web Messaging (Web mail client) lets you send and receive mail using a Web browser. You can log on to Web Messaging from a browser on any computer with a supported browser, and manage e-mail without installing e-mail client software. IMail Web Messaging directly accesses the server to manage mail. When a user creates a mailbox in the Web client, the mailbox is created on the mail server and mail folders and messages reside on the server.

IMail Web Messaging includes an integrated Web-based client. This client replaces the current Classic WebMail and Killer WebMail templates. The new client sends and receives e-mail, lets you create contacts, and lets you organize and manage mail in folders.

If you used contacts or contact lists (distribution lists) in a previous version of Ipswitch Web Messaging or in Microsoft Outlook with the WorkgroupShare plug-in, the contacts and contact lists are automatically imported into the new IMail Web Messaging client. A new Contacts folder is created that includes contacts and contact lists.

User Interface

A unified main Web page allows user-friendly access to critical e-mail functions: Inbox, folders, composing, personal settings, rule and contact management, and the ability to switch between the client and the administrator pages if you have Administrator privileges.

Optional Enhancements

• Ipswitch Instant Messaging

  Ipswitch Instant Messaging (server) provides local or remote access to Ipswitch Instant Messaging administration features via a Web browser. You can administer all instant messaging functions, including users, public contact lists, stored conversations, and server access.

  Additionally, Ipswitch Instant Messaging integrates with Microsoft® Office XP products by using Smart Tags. IIM Smart tags are person's names or e-mail addresses that are associated with an IIM contact. Microsoft Office automatically recognizes smart tags in any Office document.

• Premium Anti-Virus for IMail

  IMail Premium Anti-Virus, available separately, can be fully integrated with IMail Server and is powered by Symantec CarrierScan Server, a high performance, scalable, reliable solution to protect against viruses.

• Standard Anti-Virus for IMail

  IMail Anti-Virus, also available separately, can be fully integrated with IMail Server and is powered by SOFTWIN's BitDefender, one of the most comprehensive virus scanners available.

• IMail Premium Antispam

  Premium Antispam filtering (optional in IMail Premium and Plus editions), powered by 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. The daemon adds a layer of e-mail filtering to your mail delivery system in order to provide real-time classification, already in the first minutes after a new outbreak is launched.

• WorkGroupShare (Collaboration add-on)

  Softalk's WorkGroupShare lets the people in your organization share their Outlook data, such as calendars, contacts, e-mail, tasks and notes, without the expense or expertise required by Microsoft Exchange Server.

  Important. See the Table of Features to find out more about your options in the Ipswitch family of IMail products.