"We have been with MDaemon for 14 years. It has proven to be a stable and reliable platform. The content filters are very flexible. I have an email server that stops most junk and malicious emails from reaching my users. The Instant Messaging is an integral part of our internal communications. It has Calendaring, Tasks, Notes, all configurable. It's a very affordable alternative to more expensive systems."
"MDaemon gives us visibility into our email usage and control over the service we present to our users. Designed to be customizable, MDaemon presents us with the flexibility we need to make email work the way we need it to. The logs are comprehensive and make diagnosing email problems in a reasonable time possible."
Very easy to customize to fit our requirements. Most other email security software is a one size fits all type of product. Unfortunately, every company has different requirements, Security Gateway makes an extremely flexible package. That is easy to use and set up.
Mdaemon supports multiple client-side protocols, including IMAP, POP3, SMTP/MSA, webmail, CalDAV, CardDAV, and optionally ActiveSync for mobile clients and Outlook, and its Connector for Outlook add-on.
MDaemon's features include a built-in spam filter with Heuristic and Bayesian analysis, SSL and TLS encryption, client-side and server-side email and attachment encryption, public and shared folder support, mailing list, and support for sharing of groupware data (calendar, contacts, tasks & notes).[5][6][7] It is also the basis for MDaemon Tech's Security Gateway for Email Servers.
According to SecuritySpace.com's Mail (MX) Server Survey, MDaemon at its peak provided approximately 2.5% of all known Internet mail servers, the sixth largest installation base from all identified servers.[8]
On October 17, 2022, MDaemon Technologies published on their website customer alert[9] that MDaemon Technologies was the victim of a ransomware cyberattack on Sunday, October 16, 2022. The attack impacted the company's IT systems and website. As a result, AV update service and license service were not available impacting some MDaemon customers as users reported on MDaemon Facebook page. The AV update and license server was restored on the October 19, 2022. The company was working with the authorities, assessing the impact and working to restore all the affected systems. Their primary goal was to minimize the impact on existing software users. MDaemon Technology employees have had to temporarily switch to manual operations and had to communicate by phone in the U.S. until the systems were up and running.[10]
On a test Windows 2008 Server, I installed Mdaemon Mail Server. After playing around with the settings, I was able to configure the multipop to download mail from the Internet Mail server and access mail from both my phone and from worldmail.
When I installed it, the program asked for an email account and password to use as the global administrator account. I discovered after playing around with the Mdaemon Mail server and settting everything else up, that I could not find anywhere to edit the global administrator account in the event that I want to change the email address or change the password.
Secondly, I needed to go into the webadmin to have a look at the public spam folder and I discovered that I could not login with the global admin account. The email address and password would not work. I tested this trying to export a list of users with the same result.
I removed Mdaemon and re-installed and made sure that I had put the email address and password in correctly, with the same result. I cannot login to the global admin account and have no way of editing the account if I wish to change password or email address.
I have noticed that Mdaemon only creates one user in the user folder and this is called MDaemon and not the email address that I put in. Secondly, when MDaemon starts up it tells me that that ALERT: At least one required postmaster alias is missing for a domain and same message for abuse alias. When I go into aliases, everything points to MDa...@mydomain.co.uk instead of pointing to the global admin address that I created.
The MDaemon@ account is a system account that is not used for sending/receiving mail. If you go to Accounts Account Manager, and view your account list, do you see an account with a lightning bolt icon next to it? That would be your global administrator account. If you do not current have a global admin account, you can give an existing account global admin rights, or create a new account & give that account global admin rights.
Thanks Brad. That seems to work. I am bit confused as to why I am asked for an email address when creating the first account as I thought that the purpose of the email address was so that it could be used as the postmaster address!
I have decided to go with my original plan of sending the email from external domains to the Internet Mail server and then using Multipop to download the email to the internal mail server. However, I read the recommendations in the smap filter documentation, so I may go down the route of having the email sent directly to the internal mail server. However I want to weigh up the pros and cons of each route before making that change. I assume that it will be a simple case of pointing the DNS MX settings to my internal mail server and opening up the required ports should I wish to change this in future?
Yes, if you decide in the future to have email sent directly to MDaemon all you need to do is point the MX record for your domain to your internal mail server and make sure the ports are open. You'll also want to make sure that you have the correct domain configured in MDaemon and all of the desired accounts setup.
The only documentation I could find re the mobile is to use mail.domainname.co.uk/WorldClient.dll or something like that. But that displayed the webmail in the same way! What address should I be using for the mobile theme? I am using HTTPS only by the way.
The WorldClient URL for HTTPS would be formatted like https;//mail.example.com. If you had been using HTTP instead of HTTPS, then in most cases, the URL would be something like :3000 Opens a new window. The following knowledge base article has more information:
MDaemon can be configured to force SMTP Authentication when a sender claims to be a local user. This feature helps prevent spammers from sending as the local MDaemon users without authenticating. If this feature isn't enabled, a spammer would only have to know a local user's email address in order to send messages as that user. Use this article to configure MDaemon to force SMTP Authentication if the sender claims to be from a local account.
I'm sure that this question's been abandoned... But, I'm waiting for a server to reboot and there's nothing better to do atm.... MDaemon's a good product that we've used for quite some time (with some headbanging, unfortunately).
POP isn't what's used to get mail from your MDaemon server to Gmail, though (unless you're telling your gmail account to ALSO check mail on an outside mail server). In most situations, you'll use SMTP over port 25 to exchange mail between servers. (MDaemon supports a feature called "DomainPOP" where you can use Port 110 to collect mail from another server for local distribution based on other headers, but it's not used very often.)
The question sounds like you're trying to SEND email from your local server to an account on Gmail. You'll need to have TCP port 25 open outbound through your firewall to send mail. That doesn't mean that the remote host has to accept mail from you -- but it will make the initial handshake possible.
Usually, a fully configured mail server will have a public IP address and DNS name that directs SMTP traffic to it. It's strongly reccommended that your domain DNS have an MX record that points to your mail server. Ideally, there should be a reverse DNS pointer for the mail server.
Because of all the SPAM in the world, many mail servers refuse connections from other hosts that don't have a DNS record and a reverse pointer. That's not the only reason they refuse connections, of course, but it's one.
Anyways, I expect the original user had one of three possibilities: 1) They needed SMTP open in their firewall when they opened POP instead;2) They had POP turned off for their MDaemon account (can gmail even be configured to act as a pop client for another account?); or 3) they got blocked because of a bad dns record/pointer combination.
I'm using MDaemon 12 mailserver, Does anyone know how to make it block these attachments? I've been working on some content scanning for filetype code, but was wondering if there is a already made solution?
i have my own vps(windows server 2008 -r2 , dns and iis installed , remote access) and every thing is ok about that.
i installed MDaemon(for getting a little mail server) in that vps and configured it by it's documents.
now webadmin and webclient of mdaemon are ok and i can send and recieve mails by them.(to gmail - yahoo - etc)
i tried to connect my outlook 2010 to a mdaemon's mail and figured out encryption is disable on mdaemon.(without encryption every thing was ok and outlook worked perfect)
outlook account settings of that mail without encryption is like below (created automatically by outlook) :
as you see i checked two areas :
1-enable ssl,starttls, and stls
2-smtp server uses starttls whenever possible
the important part of previous picture is mail.soscharge.com certificate.
without creating that certificate (by hitting create certificate button in ssl and tls -> mdaemon tab) i could n't enable ssl because of mdaemon's error like below :