MailEnable is a

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-based, commercial email server distributed by MailEnable Pty. Ltd, an Australian-based software company which was established in 2002. MailEnable's features include support for

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 ...

and

SMTP The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients ty ...

email protocols with SSL/TLS support, list server,

anti-virus Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware. Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name. ...

and

anti-spam Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) as opposed to ...

and webmail functionality. Administration functions can be performed using the

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(MMC) or a

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. Groupware and collaboration functionality are provided by the use of

MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is an API for Microsoft Windows which allows programs to become email-aware. While MAPI is designed to be independent of the protocol, it is usually used to communicate with Microsoft Exchange Se ...

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 ...

SyncML SyncML (Synchronization Markup Language) is the former name for a platform-independent information synchronization standard. The project is currently referred to as ''Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization and Device Management''. The purpose o ...

and

Exchange ActiveSync Exchange ActiveSync (commonly known as EAS) is a proprietary protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. The protocol also provides mobi ...

protocols. According to one survey in May 2016, MailEnable has the largest reported install base on the Windows platform, and ranked fourth all in the list of email servers visible on the internet behind

exim Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking ...

, Postfix and

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Product editions

There are four editions of MailEnable; * Standard (Free, fully functional, POP and SMTP server which also provides IMAP and webmail) * Professional (

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and antivirus) * Enterprise (Collaboration/sharing, database and clustering) * Enterprise Premium (Mobile web administration and unlimited Outlook Client/

connections)

Integration

Control panel support

MailEnable Standard Edition is installed by default with

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Control Panel. Other supported control panel software includes

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, Ensim and WebsitePanel.

Other

MailEnable integrates with the following content filtering providers; * MxScan - anti-spam and anti-virus filtering solution * MagicSpam - anti-spam solution

References

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Product editions

Integration

Control panel support

Other

See also

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