Email

In today’s busy world, we know that you need your email instantly wherever you are. That’s why we’ve developed our email solutions to give you all the flexibility you need in one great package. So whether you are in the office, at home or on the go you will always have access.

Use a client such as Outlook or Apple Mail to download your email from our servers and manage on one device such as your PC, smartphone or iPad. Once downloaded from our server, your emails are stored locally on your device. IMAP gives you full email access on the go and peace of mind that your emails will not be lost if any of your devices are lost, stolen or inoperable. A personalised address using your company’s domain name allows you to communicate with your customers using a professional and relevant email address.

Our Advanced Anti Virus & Spam Protection enables you to protect your computer from malicious viruses and protect your inbox from junk mail. Our scanning service is only a first line of defence. You should still run anti-malware (including virus) scanner on your computer because there are ways of getting infected other than via email.

Web-based interface and management system based on the popular amavisd-new e-mail scanner and SpamAssassin. Written in Perl and PHP, giving end-users control over how their mail is processed by virus scanners and spam filters, while giving mail administrators the power to configure site-wide defaults and limits.

Features

• User-Oriented Quarantine Management.
• Users can manage their own content filtering settings.
• Users can maintain their own whitelists and blacklists.
• Let’s users see a list of their quarantined spam, sorted by score.
• Let’s users see a list of their quarantined viruses, sorted by date.
• Users can view text or HTML contents of quarantined mail in decoded or raw form in a “safe” mail viewer.
• Users can rescue quarantined items to have them redelivered, delete them, or confirm them as spam.
• Users can report “false negatives” (i.e. spam that gets past the filters).
• Optional auto-whitelisting for senders of rescued quarantine items.

User-Friendly Web Interface

• Cross-browser support (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.).
• Easily-customised appearance through Cascading Style Sheets and templates.
• Template themes allow users to select from a number of different layout designs.
• Graphical toolbars with icons.
• Online help pages for users and administrators.
• Localisation support for different languages.
• Safe mail viewer for spam and viruses, including image-blocking

Flexible User Authentication

• Users can authenticate via an external POP3, IMAP, LDAP, Exchange, or SQL server.
• Internal authentication is also supported.
• Supports login sessions with or without cookies, transparently and automatically.
• Accounts are automatically created for users when they login if necessary.
• Accounts can be auto-created as mail arrives for users, if necessary.
• Multiple e-mail addresses can be linked to a single account.
• Individual settings can be maintained for each e-mail address.

Powerful Administration Tools

• Users, Domain Administrators, and a Super-Administrator,
• A Super-Administrator account can grant/revoke Administrator privileges.
• Administrators can add domain-class users and configure per-domain defaults (e.g. @domain).
• Administrators can “impersonate” regular users to help with support issues.
• Scheduled e-mail reminders to encourage users to review their quarantine areas.
• Scheduled e-mail digests of quarantined items to enable users to manage their quarantines directly from their mail clients.
• Configurable auto-expiry schedule for neglected quarantined items.
• Per-domain and system-wide settings can be defined by Administrators.
• Virus alias administration functions.

POP
Post Office Protocol is a standard protocol for receiving email. POP is a client/server protocol in which email is received and held for you by our Mail server. Periodically, you (or your client email receiver e.g. Outlook) check your mail-box on the server and download any email using POP3.

IMAP
The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a service that allows email messages stored on a remote server to be managed in much the same way as if they were stored on the user’s local machine. Unlike POP3, which only allows access to a single inbox, IMAP allows the creation of additional folders, between which messages can be distributed for archiving. The folders will be synced across all your devices. Advanced features include the ability to search and sort messages within a folder and the ability to flag messages as “sent”, “replied-to” etc.

WEB EXCHANGE
Allows you to access your emails securely from any location, all you need is an Internet connection and web browser and you can log into your Exchange Mail account to read, send, receive and manage your emails.

Effective Spam and Virus Management Tools

• Built on SpamAssassin and amavisd-new.
• Supports a wide range of virus scanners, and can use multiple scanners for layered protection.
• Supports scanning for viruses, spam, banned attachment types, and invalid mail headers.
• Confirmed spam and ham is used to automatically train SpamAssassin’s Bayes engine.
• Confirmed spam can be automatically reported to spam-monitoring networks, e.g. Vipul’s Razor, the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, Pyzor, and SpamCop.
• Supports the use of “spam-trap” accounts to gather and report evidence.
• Auto-accept or auto-reject mail larger than a specified size.
• Scalable Design
• Mail servers, database servers, web servers and content filters can be hosted on separate machines.
• Supports arrays of content filtering machines, all controlled from a single interface.
• Supports virtual hosting of multiple domains, with per-domain features.
• SQL database storage for all e-mail, no more files.

Data Security and Integrity

• Unless explicitly discarded, no mail is ever “lost”.
• Mail is stored in pristine form, no amavisd/SA headers.
• (depreciated) Strong Blowfish/CBC encryption of stored e-mail can be enabled.
• Privacy settings can be configured to prevent or allow administrators to read users’ e-mail.
• Statistics Tracking
• Tracks viruses, spam, and ham (i.e. “non-spam”) for statistical purposes.
• Tracks bandwidth consumption for viruses, spam and ham.
• Tracks financial costs associated with bandwidth for each type of item.
• Filter effectiveness stats.
• Statistics available in table form and as graphic charts (with JpGraph?).
• New charts and visualizations of the data can be added easily.
• Condensed stats table.

Hosted on a dedicated appliance at our Data Centre located in Manchester you will have full access, management and responsibility for your email security giving you total ownership of your email correspondence.