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ImageThe Award-winning IMail Server is a proven email messaging solution for small and mid-sized businesses. Reliable, scalable and versatile, IMail Server is an affordable choice for the small and medium sized small business messaging needs. Unlike complicated and more expensive messaging solutions, IMail Server delivers a quick and easy installation. As a scalable, standards-based, email server with Webmail, Push Email, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP, and List Server, IMail users can send and receive email using any standards-based client, including Microsoft® Outlook®, Outlook Express®, or Eudora®. Or, users can access email from anywhere via IMail's customizable Web messaging, available in eight languages.

Designed to place minimal ongoing maintenance burden on network administrators, IMail can authenticate users from its own database, an active directory database, or from any ODBC-compliant data store, making life easier for the busy administrator. IMail Server also delivers a quick and easy installation or upgrade process.

Ipswitch meets the requirements for any small or mid-sized organization's messaging needs. With IMail Server, the benefits of improved collaboration extend to all levels of the organization and to businesses in any industry by providing secure Ipswitch Instant Messaging with 168-bit 3DES Encryption, full mobile synchronization and push email services. IMail Server also includes WorkgroupShare for secure exchange and shared calendaring, scheduling and free-busy lookups using Microsoft® Outlook®. IMail Server licenses are available in packages for 10, 25, 100, 250, 500, 1,000 and unlimited users.

 

Mobile Synchronization and Push Email

 

If you like cool features, then you will enjoy the new push email offering provided with IMail v11. IMail's mobile synchronization platform enables organizations of all sizes to synchronize business critical information and improve the speed of service, quality of communication, and effectiveness of collaboration between employees and customers. With IMail Mobile, you stay connected to your email, calendar, contacts and tasks with the same features that you have come to expect from your personal computer. Updates are pushed over the air to your supported mobile phone as soon as the new content is made available.

The ever expanding mobile environment has proven to be one of the most effective venues for business communication. Having all of your devices synced has become the expectation for business users. No more running back to the office computer for important email. Your information finds your mobile device wherever you are so you never again miss messages while you are on the go!

Features of IMail Mobile Sync include:

  • Direct Push of personal calendar, personal contacts, and personal tasks in real time
  • Current support available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices
  • BlackBerry and Apple iPhone support available soon

 

Commtouch: Premium Anti-spam with Edge Protection 

As our most advanced offering, IMail Server with Premium anti-spam, (a.k.a. IMail Server Premium), meets the needs of small to mid-sized businesses by providing secure, powerful and straight-forward messaging capabilities. IMail Server Premium combines the ease-of-use and reliability included in IMail Server, with the industry's leading premium anti-spam technology from Commtouch. Utilizing a multi-layered approach, Commtouch's advanced detection is able to block over 98% of spam, phishing, and malware while maintaining the industry's lowest false positive level.

 

Layer 1: Edge Protection

Commtouch's edge protection efficiently stops the majority of unwanted emails from ever entering your network, saving on both bandwidth and infrastructure costs. By accessing real-time IP reputation data provided by Commtouch's GlobalView Mail Reputation service, IMail Server Premium can block malicious senders during the SMTP transaction, before any data has been sent.

 

Layer 2: Message Patterns

Commtouch's Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) technology analyzes large volumes of Internet traffic in real-time rather than evaluating each individual message. The result is instant protection from new outbreaks - far ahead of signatures or software updates. This unique content-agnostic technology detects and blocks spam in any language and is also highly effective against image-based spam.

With the unbeatable combination of Commtouch's near-perfect spam detection, low false positives and easy integration, IMail Server Premium achieves the industry's best spam detection and accuracy. If you are looking for an affordable easy-to-own, standards-based email solution that carries all the rich features of the most expensive enterprise systems, IMail Server Premium is the perfect choice.

 

Premium Security Bundle

The IMail Server Premium Security Bundle delivers a combination of high-performance, multi-layered email security platforms from Commtouch anti-spam and Symantec anti-virus that removes unwanted spam and provides maximum protection from the most sophisticated email related threats. This combination of technologies delivers edge protection security and helps organizations more easily and effectively support all messaging and protection needs.

With the volume of spam and malware now exceeding billions of messages worldwide per day, corporate email servers and users are becoming overwhelmed, resulting in wasted corporate

 resources and decreased productivity. Both Commtouch and Symantec are respected as global leaders in providing solutions that help businesses secure and manage their information.

 

Versions Comparison

Features  IMail Express IMail Server  IMail Premium
 Scalable, standards-based, Windows email server with Webmail, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP and list server Yes Yes Yes 
 Basic anti-spam with blacklists, Bayesian filter and phrase filters Yes Yes Yes
 Enhanced security with SSL Encryption, SMTP Auth and dictionary attack sensing Yes Yes Yes
 Password sensitivity security controls in Domain Properties Yes Yes Yes
 Mobile Synchronization and Push Email Yes Yes Yes
 12 months unlimited support and product updates and patches Yes Yes Yes
 Instant Messaging  Yes Yes
 Secure instant messaging with 168-bit 3DES encryption  Yes Yes
 Shared Outlook calendars and global address books with Web access  Yes Yes
 Commtouch Premium anti-spam with automatic updates and network based protection against email borne threats   Yes
 Maximum Number of Users 10 Unlimited Unlimited
 Integrated Anti-virus Optional Optional Optional

 

Technical Specifications 

IMail can handle as many as 300,000 users, with an average message flow of ~25 per second / ~2 million a day.

  • Support for 32 and 64 bit platforms
  • IIS / .Net Framework 2.0
  • SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and LDAP Protocol Support
  • RFC 1870 Compliant
     

System Requirement

  • Windows 2000 or higher
  • Pentium 4 Processor 2.8GHz or later
  • Memory 1024MB
  • 100Mbps Network Interface Card