As we endure the heat of the “dog days” of summer here in the northern hemisphere, we start to see tell-tale signs of the approaching end of summer – kids going back to school, the sun setting slightly earlier each night. But not all good things must end in August. Therefore, I’m excited to announce the extension of our 15% off Summer Savings promotion – now through September!
Through September 30, when you make a new purchase of MDaemon or purchase, renew, or upgrade Security Gateway, you’ll automatically receive 15% off the regular price.
Whether you’re tired of the expense and headache of managing Microsoft Exchange Server, or are looking for a secure, affordable alternative to Kerio, IceWarp, or Gmail, MDaemon’s migration tools can help you migrate your business email and groupware data. Additional migration information and how-to guides for Security Gateway can be found on our Literature page.
MDaemon Email Server and Security Gateway customers have made it clear – MDaemon Technologies delivers safe, secure email solutions that fit their unique business needs at a great price.
Users voiced their opinions on G2 Crowd this past quarter, earning both products a number of awards on the peer-to-peer review site. Recognition is based solely on customer reviews, with users rating products on what they like, what they dislike, and what problems the particular product solves.
MDaemon Email Server earned a 4.7 out of 5 star rating, netting the #2 slot in both the Highest Rated and Easiest to Use categories. In addition, customers’ positive comments also gave MDaemon Email Server the “High Performer” and “Users Love Us” badges.
Top Email Servers – G2 Crowd
Reviews of MDaemon Email Server praise the security and stability of the tool, ease of use and management, amount of control and customization, affordability, and value of customer support.
Meanwhile, Security Gateway also performed well against other email gateway products. Scoring 4.4 stars out of 5, Security Gateway placed third in the Easiest to Use group, and among the top 5 in the Highest Rated division. Security Gateway also garnered a “High Performer” badge for both the on premise and cloud Email Security Gateway solution.
Security Gateway for Email Servers – Ranking on G2 Crowd
Security Gateway users lauded the easy setup and management, robust security features, reporting capability, and the ability to customize the tool to fit their needs.
If you’re like me, you want an email client that’s easy to set up, easy to use, and easy on the eyes, and if it works well with MDaemon, then that’s a huge plus!
An email client that fits these criteria quite nicely is eM Client, a full-featured email client that supports email, contacts, calendars and tasks, and works on a variety of platforms and devices. Its touch-friendly design makes eM Client the ideal messaging and collaboration tool for smartphones and tablets.
eM Client is simple, elegant, customizable and easy to set up. Its built-in calendar works seamlessly with MDaemon’s free/busy server to help users avoid scheduling conflicts when planning meetings and events.
It even integrates nicely with MDaemon’s XMPP chat server for convenient instant messaging and file sharing using the integrated chat bar.
An Email Client that’s Easy to Install and Configure. No hassles!
MDaemon users will find eM Client to be a viable alternative to Microsoft Outlook and other mail clients. Simple, hassle-free setup means users can be up and running in less than a minute by simply entering their email address and password. eM Client takes care of the rest!
Launch the installer file & click Agree on the license agreement.
Click the Install button.
eM Client Install Button
Leave the boxes checked if you’d like to set eM Client as the default email application, run at Windows startup, and launch eM Cleint after setup, and then click on Finish.
eM Client Install Startup Options
Enter your email address, and then click Start Now.
eM Client Email Address
Enter your password, and then click Continue.
eMClient – Enter Password
Verify your name and account name (your full email address), and then click Next.
eM Client Verify Account
By default, email, calendars and contacts are automatically synced, and instant messaging via XMPP is enabled. Click on Finish to continue.
eM Client Sync Calendars and Contacts
That’s it! You can now begin using eM Client with MDaemon!
As our products have evolved over the years, with new features added regularly, older versions of our software are eventually no longer supported.
Effective July 30, 2019, technical support will be discontinued for the following product versions:
MDaemon – Versions 14.5.x and below
Security Gateway – Versions 4.5.x and below
Outlook Connector – Versions 4.5.x and below
SecurityPlus – Versions 5.0.x and below
For continued support, this is a great opportunity to renew your license and upgrade to most recent versions of our software to take advantage of the latest features! As a current user we offer an automatic 30% discount off the price of a new purchase!
Upgrade MDaemon today and get these exciting new features:
MDaemon Connector for Outlook (formerly Outlook Connector for MDaemon) has new features, too!
Control MDaemon Connector for Outlook client settings from the MDaemon console
Outlook Connector has been re-branded as MDaemon Connector for Outlook, and, beginning with MDaemon 18, is now included with MDaemon as a licensed feature (via purchase of separate license).
Therefore, in the latest version of MDaemon, a separate download is not required on the MDaemon server. Simply enter your MDaemon Connector license key via Help | Register your MDaemon Products to activate MDaemon Connector for Outlook. Features introduced after version 4.5 include:
“Expired password” or “password change required” notification for end users
Administrator control over which Outlook add-ins are allowed or disabled
Junk Email folder / Blocked Senders support
S/MIME support for message signing and encryption
MDaemon Connector configuration reports for administrators, with Outlook send/receive schedules for all accounts.
Centrally-managed send/receive schedules
Nearing/over quota alerts for end users
New database management tools to help administrators maintain optimal performance
MDaemon Antivirus – with Cyren AV and Mailbox Scanning
SecurityPlus has been rebranded as MDaemon Antivirus, and beginning with MDaemon 18, is also now a licensed feature of MDaemon that no longer requires a separate download.
Recent versions of MDaemon Antivirus include these new features:
Mailbox scanning
Cyren AV (The Kaspersky AV engine was replaced by Cyren in October, 2017)
ClamAV antivirus plugin
Exclusions for password-protected files for approved senders or recipients
Would you like to take advantage of these new features? Click here to upgrade or renew your product license today and receive the latest security and administration updates as they become available for the duration of your license term!
“We are excited to bring our many years of email security expertise and management to offer customers and channel partners a new cloud service without the need for them to make expensive hardware and infrastructure investments,” said Kevin Beatty, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. “By adding this new service, expanding our DLP features and integrating archiving without increasing the cost of the product, we continue to offer customers unmatched value.”
In the early to mid nineties, our founder and CEO Arvel Hathcock recognized the need for a less expensive, easier to manage alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server for small-to-medium businesses. With solid programming skills and an entrepreneurial spirit, he created the MDaemon Email Server and launched Alt-N Technologies.
Through word of mouth among IT professionals and with the help of great channel partners, the popularity of MDaemon spread to customers across the globe. Over the years and in various geographies, the product name became more recognized than Alt-N Technologies. To better leverage the name recognition that had been built over the many years of MDaemon email server popularity, the company was renamed to MDaemon Technologies in January of 2018.
Helping the World Communicate
From the introduction of Webmail in 1997 and instant messaging in 2001, to support for third-party XMPP chat clients in 2016, MDaemon has helped improved communication for businesses in over 90 countries.
Focused on Security
Alongside these communication features came enhancements in security. IP Shielding, which is used to help prevent spoofing by blocking messages from unauthorized IP addresses, was introduced in 1996 before MDaemon even had version numbers (for some great historical information, check out the Ancient-History.txt file located inside the MDaemon/Docs directory). Relay control was added the following year, with many new security features added with each new release. In 2005, MDaemon became the first Windows-based email server to offer DKIM (Domainkeys Identified Mail) as a new tool in the fight against spoofing. And to address the growing need to protect confidential data and meet growing regulations in health care, finance, and other industries, email encryption with OpenPGP was added in 2015.
Sharing & Collaboration
MDaemon’s collaboration tools have evolved over the years as well. Instant messaging was added in 2001, followed by shared calendars and groupware in 2002 and 2003. Scheduling meetings with multiple attendees was made easier by the addition of free/busy in 2006.
As business communication needs evolve, so does MDaemon, with new features on the way for 2019. If you’d like to be among the first to benefit, follow us on twitter for the latest news & product updates.
2018 has been a busy year for new threats spread via email, with spear-phishing and Business-Email-Compromise (CEO fraud) the rising star for cyber-criminals intent on draining your bank account. Recent victims include Google and Facebook ($100 million lost), McEwan University (almost $12 million lost), a New York judge ($1 million), and a Dutch cinema chain (over $21.5 million). These threats will continue to grow as cyber-criminals try new tactics to separate you from your money. The latest trend involves using encrypted HTTPS connections to trick users into thinking they’re visiting a secure site. This means users can no longer trust a site that displays the green padlock icon in the address bar. Always verify that you’re visiting a legitimate site before entering any personal information such as Social Security or credit card numbers, otherwise, your private data could be transmitted to a hacker.
As we continue to bring awareness to these threats, new ones emerge almost daily. In the past three months, a cyber-espionage group known as Seedworm (aka MuddyWater) has used spear-phishing attacks to infect 131 individuals with the Powermuddy backdoor (a new variant of their Powermud backdoor). Once a system has been compromised, this malware runs a tool that steals passwords from a user’s browser and email, often leading to access to the victim’s email and social media accounts.
Protect Yourself from the Latest Threats
Over the years, I’ve posted many times about phishing, spear-phishing, and other threats, with a variety of suggestions for protecting yourself and your business from becoming the next victim. Throughout these posts (from oldest to newest), you’ll find lots of tips to avoid being tricked by these email-borne scams.
As the threat landscape continues to evolve, businesses of all sizes must maintain awareness of the latest email-borne threats and educate staff at all levels, from entry level to C-suite. After all, without the right tools and procedures in place, it only takes one misguided mouse click to damage a business’ reputation or send it into bankruptcy.
As hurricane Florence threatens the east coast with high winds, heavy rainfall and flooding, businesses could potentially lose access to critical communication services. When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana last year, we offered free temporary assistance for those without email services. For those affected by Florence, we are again here to help. We’re offering affected businesses free temporary email hosting using your existing domain or temporary email accounts on our hosted webmail platform.
On Monday, May 14th, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reported that European researchers had discovered core problems and commonplace implementation flaws in the S/MIME and OpenPGP protocol specifications. The vulnerability, which the researchers have described as EFAIL, can reportedly expose the content of encrypted emails (even messages sent in the past) to be viewed. The EFAIL vulnerability affects many email clients that use S/MIME and OpenPGP. There is a list of email clients with vulnerabilities by protocol in an article posted at thehackernews.com.
It’s very important to understand that to be at risk for this vulnerability, attackers would need access to your emails. This means that your email system has been compromised by an attacker who has access to the encrypted emails through tactics such as eavesdropping on network traffic (also known as a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack), compromised email accounts, access to email servers, backup systems or client computers, usually achieved through social engineering attacks, such as Phishing and other tactics.
We have checked our own web-based email client (MDaemon Webmail) and our MDaemon OpenPGP-based encryption feature. Our results show that MDaemon Webmail is not vulnerable. However, the MDaemon email server OpenPGP feature is partially vulnerable to one implementation flaw. We have released a patch for affected versions of MDaemon email software, which can be found here. The current version of the MDaemon email server, v18.0.1, includes this fix.
A Reminder on the Best Email Security Practices
This latest issue should remind us all about the importance of email security practices as a whole. Implementing strong passwords, two-factor authentication, location screening, SSL/TLS, SMTP AUTH, IP Shielding, dynamic screening, freezing accounts after failed authentication attempts, all play a role in helping to keep your accounts and your email safe. You can review a list of email security features in MDaemon here.
If you’ve implemented security to help protect malicious people from accessing your email accounts, then you are less likely to have an account compromised and you will be better protected against these types of attacks and vulnerabilities.
Ongoing Monitoring
While the researchers go into some depth to expose issues deep within the S/MIME and OpenPGP specification documents, these encryption protocols may need specification changes to address the longer-term issues mentioned in the initial report. MDaemon Technologies will continue to monitor this issue.
Additional Resources
We have provided links to past blog posts that cover a number of email security topics to provide additional information:
MDaemon Email Server and Security Gateway customers have made it clear – MDaemon Technologies delivers safe, secure email solutions that fit their unique business needs at a great price.
peer-to-peer review site. Recognition is based solely on customer reviews, with users rating products on what they like, what they dislike, and what problems the particular product solves.
2018 has been a busy year for new threats spread via email, with spear-phishing and 
