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:

• Antivirus (available separately)
  • Symantec Antivirus Scan Engine (Premium AV) provides automatic protection from viruses, worms, and trojan horses.
  • Bit-Defender Antivirus (Standard AV) provides fully integrated proactive protection against viruses, trojans, or other potentially malicious codes.
• Premium Antispam Service (available with IMail Premium) 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 lets users access Web Calendaring, which allows them to store schedules, set appointments using a Web browser. The new Web Calendar does not require a service. It is controlled at the domain and user level for access.
  • Upgrades. The old Web Calendar service and data will remain intact for access if upgrading to IMail Server v11.
  • New Installations. The old Web Calendar service will no longer be installed. The new Web Calendar does not require a service and works directly with the WorkgroupShare databases.
• Ipswitch Instant Messaging Server 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.

• SMTP service allows the IMail Server to communicate with other mail servers on the internet.
• 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 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.