MDaemon Email Server is an
email server
Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent (MTA), or mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using SMTP. The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host ...
application with
groupware functions for
Microsoft Windows, first released by Alt-N Technologies in 1996.
Features
Mdaemon supports multiple client-side protocols, including
IMAP
In computing, the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection. IMAP is defined by .
IMAP was designed with the goal of per ...
,
POP3
In computing, the Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. POP version 3 (POP3) is the version in common use, and along with IMAP the most common ...
,
SMTP/MSA,
webmail,
CalDAV
Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access and manage calendar data along with the ability to schedule meetings with users on the same or on remote servers. It lets multiple users in diff ...
,
CardDAV
vCard Extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV) is an address book client/server protocol designed to allow users to access and share contact data on a server.
The CardDAV protocol was developed by the IETF and was published as in August 2011. CardDAV is ...
, and optionally
ActiveSync for mobile clients and
Outlook
Outlook or The Outlook may refer to:
Computing
* Microsoft Outlook, an e-mail and personal information management software product from Microsoft
* Outlook.com, a web mail service from Microsoft
* Outlook on the web, a suite of web applications ...
, and its ''Connector for Outlook'' add-on.
MDaemon's features include a built-in
spam filter
Email filtering is the processing of email to organize it according to specified criteria. The term can apply to the intervention of human intelligence, but most often refers to the automatic processing of messages at an SMTP server, possibly appl ...
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). 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.
MDaemon Technologies Ransomware Attack
On October 17, 2022 MDaemon Technologies published on their website customer alert 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.
References
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Windows Internet software
Proprietary software
Message transfer agents
Groupware