In the rush to embrace the new bells and whistles that cloud services like Office 365 have to offer, businesses sometimes neglect to read the small print. Particularly when it comes to the topic of backup and archiving. One thing you can be sure of however, is that in the event of an email being…
SecurityGateway In Front of Office 365
Out of the box, Microsoft’s Office 365 email security provides basic spam and malware filtering. If you want something more substantial that can be fine tuned to YOUR business, then SecurityGateway may be just what you need. SecurityGateway, by MDaemon Technologies, incorporates multiple AV engines and proactive Outbreak Protection technology, combined with additional signature recognition…
MDaemon Messaging Server – How To Enable and Configure DKIM
As a leader in email security, MDaemon was the first windows based email server to adopt the DKIM protocol in 2005. In fact, Arvel Hathcock, the founder of ALT-N Technologies (now MDaemon Technologies), was part of the team that created the DKIM framework. DomainKeys Identified Mail (commonly referred to as DKIM) is an email sender…
MDaemon Messaging Server – Improving Message Deliverability
As an email administrator one of your tasks is ensuring the best possible delivery success rate for the emails your users are sending. It is not uncommon for a local user to complain that their messages are not being delivered and yet when you look into it you find out that the recipient’s email server…
Moving WinGate to a New Machine
All configuration settings for Wingate are kept in the registry. This makes moving WinGate to a new machine a simple matter of exporting a key from the registry and then importing it once you have WinGate installed on the new system. Please Note: These instructions are for going from 32 bit to 32 bit or…
BackupAssist: CryptoSafeGuard – Protect Your Backups from Ransomware
Cortex I.T., the developers of BackupAssist, have introduced a new security feature called CryptoSafeGuard. This tool is specifically designed to protect your backups from the ever popular and super destructive ‘Crypto’ variants of malware, also known as ‘Ransomware’. If you are lucky enough to not have encountered it before,the Crypto malware encrypts your data and…
MailStore Status Report
MailStore – Scheduled Email Reporting With the release of MailStore v10.1 administrators can now configure a status report of MailStore that will be sent to the administrator as an email. The HTML email report includes a lot of useful information that an admin would see on the “Start Page” after logging in with the MailStore…
SecurityPlus v5.1.0 Upgrade – Special Considerations
Alt-N Technologies have released their latest version of SecurityPlus, the antivirus plugin for MDaemon. This new version adds a second layer of defense with an additional AV engine, ClamAV. (Previously it included only the anti-virus engine from Kaspersky Labs.) Currently each AV engine needs to be configured separately. By default both are enabled. If you…
Synchronize your Calendar, Contacts, Tasks and Email to a Mac
The long awaited and often requested “Mac Support” has finally arrived. As of MDaemon 16, you can now synchronize; Email, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks to your Mac computer running OS X. To make this possible the Alt-N development team has added CalDAV and CardDAV functionality to MDaemon as a core feature. For those of us…
Prerequisites for Creating an OutlookConnector Account
We receive quite a few support requests from admins experiencing issues with the OutlookConnector client. For good reason — setting up an OutlookConnector account requires some very important prerequisites which may not seem obvious and are often overlooked. We want to ensure you’re not called back to your customer’s location on a regular basis to…
