One of the main features of SpamAssassin, the core spam filtering component in the MDaemon Messaging Server, is the ability to do DNS lookups. One of the available lookups is a query to URIBL which keeps a list of web addresses, or URLs, that are found in the body of SPAM email. The example below…
MailStore Server – Removing Old Logs
If you have been running MailStore for any length of time you may have noticed there are a number of log files created by MailStore. Each time an archive profile runs a separate log file is created. This can lead to a large number of log files in a short period of time. Where are…
MDaemon Messaging Server – Tweaking Scores on Existing SpamAssassin Rules
By far, our most common technical support question involves how to control SPAM. The core of MDaemon’s spam filter is the well known SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin uses a rule set when filtering emails and each rule is set to add ‘X’ number of points to the message’s spam score. Changing the scoring of certain SpamAssassin rules…
MDaemon Messaging Server – WebAdmin Reports
Our last blog post detailed some newer features found in MDaemon’s webmail called WorldClient. Today I would like to note a new reporting feature in WebAdmin, MDaemon’s web based administration tool. The MDaemon global administrator can now view the statistical charts for items like inbound vs outbound messages or the top recipients of spam. First, lets take…
MDaemon Messaging Server – WorldClient Enhancements
In a perfect world all IT admins would have the time to read release notes when a new version of a product is released to see what issues have been fixed and what new features were added. So in the interest of saving you, the IT Professional, some time I thought I’d provide you with…
eScan – Stop Unwanted Application Installations
A request came in the other day from a frustrated admin asking, “Do you know of any software that I can use to block the installation of software on client computers?” He was tired of users continually downloading and installing questionable programs that caused havoc on their systems which he would then be called…
MDaemon Messaging Server – Protect Your Local Accounts
A panicked admin contacted us stating that their info@ account was being used to send spam. What we quickly found out is that the admin had not enabled any security to protect their local accounts from being abused. All the spammer needed was to know a valid local email address to send spam from….
Cerberus FTP – Public File Sharing
Do your users need an easy way to share files with other users outside of the company? Are users sending files too large to be accepted by certain email servers? As a support tech for the MDaemon email server we see this issue often. A user on MDaemon will try to send a 50+ MB…
MDaemon Messaging Server – Account Templates and How to Use Them
Do you have a group of users who all need to use the same account settings but dread the thought of having to edit each account individually? Do you need an easy and quick way to apply changes to many accounts at one time? You can save a lot of time with the above tasks…
BackupAssist – Data Containers
What is a data containers? The BackupAssist Data Container is a VHD file that System Protection backups (image backups) are stored inside of. What makes this container so handy is that it will automatically be mounted as a local disk thereby making backups more portable and allowing us to have multiple restore points. For the…