IMail Administrator Requirements

The IMail Administrator provides local or remote access to IMail Server administration features via a Web browser.

IMail Web Administration supports:

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 and later
• Mozilla 1.7 or later
• Firefox 1.0.6 for Microsoft Windows or later
• Firefox 2.0.0.2 for Macintosh or later
• Safari 2.0.4 for Macintosh, or, the upgraded version of Safari installed with Mac OS X version 10.4.8

You can access IMail Server Administrator options from the tabs across the top of the browser and the navigation links along the left side of the browser window. For more details, see System Requirements.

Access the following IMail Server Administration features from the tabs:

• Home. Provides easy access to other Installed Ipswitch Products.
• System. Provides access to system settings, server level DNS Black Lists , and the message queue The mail queue also known as the spool Normally, IMail Server cleans up the .tmp and attached files as part of the delivery process. However, if there is an SMTP failure during delivery, these files may not be deleted. You can also run the Spool Cleaner utility (isplcln.exe) to delete old files., is a directory that stores mail messages that are waiting for delivery. Files in the queue include incoming messages, outgoing messages, attachments, and error messages. The queue releases messages one at a time in the order that they were received..
• Domain. Provides access to IMail Server domains and lets you manage domain properties, users, spam filters, aliases, mailing lists, LDAP settings, attachment blocking, inbound and outbound rules, white lists, and peer lists.
• Anti-Virus. Provides access to enable and select the server Anti-Virus options.
• AntiSpam. Provides access to a variety of antispam features such as statistical and phrase filters (content filters), HTML feature filters, URL domain black lists, broken MIME headers, Sender Policy Framework (SPF ), and connection checks for domain level DNS black lists and various verification checks.
• Collaboration. Provides access to options for sharing users' Outlook data, such as calendars, tasks, contacts, distribution lists, notes and e-mail. You can define data that users have access to through flexible access control lists.
• Services. Provides access to the services status and options that IMail Server supports:
  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
  • Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3)
  • Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4 (IMAP4)
  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
  • Queue Manager
  • Log Server
  • Web Calendaring
  • Logging
• Logging. Provides access to the log files in the IMail spool directory. Log files are named with the format logMMDD.txt where MM is the month and DD is the date.