Category: Product Updates

Security Gateway 6.5 – With Improved Attachment Handling & Database Support

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If you’re in charge of managing your company’s email, whether you’re running an in-house Exchange server or Office 365, you’ve certainly become all too familiar with the latest threats posed by cybercriminals – threats that go far beyond the old-school Nigerian Prince email scam that has become the brunt of jokes over the past couple of decades. So if protecting your employees from email-borne scams is important to you & your business, a secure email gateway to protect against phishing, malware, data leaks and other threats would be a sound investment.

If you’re looking for email security solution that will block the most spam, viruses, and phishing threats, with user-friendly email traffic reports, email archiving, and Data Leak Prevention (DLP) at a price that’s affordable for small businesses, consider Security Gateway for Email Servers.

Announcing Security Gateway 6.5!

This week, we released Security Gateway 6.5, with improved attachment handling and external database support.

Macro Detection in Office Documents

Cybercriminals often use macros in email attachments to spread malware. In Security Gateway 6.5, the Cyren Antivirus engine can be configured to detect macros in Microsoft Office documents and flag them as infected.

SecurityGateway for Email Servers - Antivirus Flag Macro
SecurityGateway for Email Servers – Antivirus Flag Macro
Improved Handling of Restricted Attachments

Messages sent from Microsoft Outlook in Rich Text format are sent with an embedded file containing formatting data. Receiving email clients that do not understand this data may display it as a Winmail.dat attachment. To prevent users from bypassing the restricted attachments list by attaching restricted file types to rich text emails, SecurityGateway can now look inside Winmail.dat attachments for restricted file.

Security Gateway can now also scan RAR archives for restricted attachments.

External Database Support

Security Gateway installs with its own embedded Firebird database, however, in the latest release, administrators can configure Security Gateway to use an external Firebird database for improved performance.

Other Improvements

These are just the highlights. Additional features include email archive journal reports plus enhancements to manage archive and Sieve scripts via the API. You can read the full list of new features here in the release notes, or download your free trial to begin protecting your business against the latest threats!

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Announcing MDaemon 19.5 – With Redesigned Mobile Webmail & More!

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The news is out. There’s a new version of MDaemon Email Server, with new features and improvements to benefit both administrators and end-users alike!

New Features for Administrators

Centralized Management of Email Client Signatures

Most businesses follow certain custom branding practices in their email communications, but inevitably there will be those end users who have not updated their email signature to adhere to these branding practices, introducing inconsistencies in the company’s branding image. To help businesses maintain consistent branding and appearance of company email, MDaemon administrators can now configure default and per-domain email client signatures that are personalized for each user and pushed to supported email clients (MDaemon Webmail and MDaemon Connector for Outlook).

Both plain-text and HTML signatures are supported, and macros can be used (here’s a handy macro reference guide) to automatically populate various fields from the user’s account. You can even add images and links!

MDaemon Email Server - Client Signatures
Centralized management of email client signatures

When using MDaemon Remote Administration, adding signatures is made even easier using the available editing and formatting tools. You can even add your company logo by simply dragging the image into the window.

Centralized management of email client signaturs with MDaemon Remote Adminisration
MDaemon Remote Administration – Default Email Client Signature

Macro Detection in Email Attachments

Cybercriminals often attach Microsoft Office files containing malicious macros to their spam & phishing email messages. They then use social engineering to try to trick the user into opening the attachment (which may be disguised as an invoice, payment receipt or legal document) and enabling macros. From there, the macro goes right to work, unleashing malware that can take down your network, or ransomware that can take days to remove, costing your businesses thousands of dollars in lost revenue.

To help prevent these attachments from reaching users, MDaemon Antivirus has a new setting to detect macros in documents scanned by Cyren AV and flag them as infected for further review by the administrator.

MDaemon Antivirus - Macro Detection in Attachments
MDaemon Antivirus – Macro Detection in Attachments

New Features for End Users

New Mobile Theme for Webmail

These days, most people use their smartphones for just about everything, from banking or surfing the Web, to conducting business via email, so whether you’re using the largest Microsoft Surface tablet, or the smallest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy, you need access to your most important email and collaboration features at all times.

Redesigned MDaemon Webmail for Mobile Devices - with responsive design for mobile phones and tablets
Redesigned MDaemon Webmail for any Screen Size

To help users on the go stay organized, the Mobile Theme for MDaemon Webmail has been redesigned with a more modern look, and includes a variety of new features previously only found in desktop themes. New email management features include email templates, personalized categories, drag & drop email filters, email signature editor with support for multiple signatures, deferred delivery, message snooze, message recall, and sorting options.

Calendar features for the new Mobile Webmail theme include importing and exporting in CSV or ICS (iCal) format, support for external calendars, private access links, simultaneous multi-calendar view, and much more.

But that’s not all…

These are just the major highlights. You can read the full list of improvements in the MDaemon Release Notes.

Still using Exchange? Are you unhappy with your hosting provider’s product support? Try MDaemon free for 30 days, or visit our MDaemon Hosted Email Options page to sign up for hassle-free cloud hosted email!

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Security Gateway’s Built-in Archiving and Cloud-Based Email Integration Just got a Major Update!

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fSecurity Gateway for Email Servers version 6.1. release with archiving, legal hold, and data retentionWhen it comes to email archiving, businesses require features that go beyond simple message replication in order to meet expanding regulations. And because every email solution, whether it’s on-premises or in the cloud, needs strong anti-spam/anti-malware filtering, it makes sense to combine archiving and security into a single product. To address the growing demand for a combined email security/archiving solution, archiving was added to Security Gateway for Email Servers in version 6.0.

Security Gateway’s Integrated Archiving Just Got a Lot Better!

With Security Gateway 6.1, the integrated archiving feature received a major upgrade with these new features for legal compliance and cloud email integration:

  • Legal Hold

Security Gateway’s new Legal Hold feature will prevent emails from being deleted from the archive, regardless of any other settings, user permissions, or retention periods.

Legal Hold - Security Gateway for Email Servers
Legal Hold – Security Gateway for Email Servers
  • Minimum Archive Retention Period

Businesses must meet a variety of data retention laws, and these laws vary by country or region. In the United States, many businesses must store archived emails in compliance with the following laws and retention policies:

  • IRS Regulations (for all companies) – 7 Years
  • Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX – For all public companies) – 7 Years
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA – Federal, state & local agencies) – 3 Years
  • Department of Defense Regulations (for contractors) – 3 Years
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) – 7 Years

To meet these and other growing regulations, administrators can assign a minimum retention period for all archived email messages. During this time, archived messages cannot be deleted regardless of any other settings or user permissions.

Email Retention Period - Security Gateway for Email Servers
Email Retention Period – Security Gateway for Email Servers

Improved Cloud/Hosted Email Integration for Microsoft Office 365 & Azure

Security Gateway’s automatic user creation feature helps reduce administrator workload by verifying whether an email sent to or from a local domain contains a valid email address, and then automatically adding the account once the email address has been verified.  With Security Gateway 6.1, this process has gotten much easier for businesses using cloud email services, with a new option to verify users by querying Microsoft Office 365 or Azure Active Directory.

Office 365 & Azure User Verificatioin - Security Gateway for Email Servers
Office 365 & Azure User Verification – Security Gateway for Email Servers

Other New Features

Other new features for Security Gateway include:

  • Whitelist & Blacklist Search – A search field was added to the Whitelist and Blacklist screens to help administrators find listed email addresses more easily.
  • Quarantine reports can now be sorted by score. This makes it easier to identify false-positives, which will likely have lower scores.

For the complete list of updates, please see the Security Gateway release notes.

If you aren’t yet protecting your business email with Security Gateway for Email Servers, visit the Security Gateway product page for an overview of its features, or visit the Download page to download a free trial!

Security Gateway Hosted/Cloud services are also available.

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Looking for an Alternative Email Client to Microsoft Outlook? eM Client – Email and Collaboration that Works Well with MDaemon Email Server!

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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.

There’s even a Mac OS version!

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!

To get started, download eM Client and then simply follow these steps.

  1. Launch the installer file & click Agree on the license agreement.eM Client License Agreement
  2. Click the Install button.

    eM Client Install Button
    eM Client Install Button
  3. 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
    eM Client Install Startup Options
  4. Enter your email address, and then click Start Now.

    eM Client Email Address
    eM Client Email Address
  5. Enter your password, and then click Continue.

    eMClient - Enter Password
    eMClient – Enter Password
  6. Verify your name and account name (your full email address), and then click Next.

    eM Client Verify Account
    eM Client Verify Account
  7. 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
    eM Client Sync Calendars and Contacts

That’s it! You can now begin using eM Client with MDaemon!

 

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Expiring Support for Older Software: Renew & Upgrade for the Latest Features & Improved Security!

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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, webmail, chat, IM, collaboration
Integrated instant messaging in MDameon Webmail

Check out our MDaemon Features by Version page to see what you could be missing!

After July 30, 2019, supported versions of MDaemon will include MDaemon 15 & up.

Upgrade Security Gateway for Email Servers today and get these exciting new features:

When you upgrade to the latest release of Security Gateway, you can take advantage of these new features:

Archiving Features in Security Gateway
Archiving Features in Security Gateway

More information on these new features can be found on our Security Gateway Product Page.

MDaemon Connector for Outlook (formerly Outlook Connector for MDaemon) has new features, too!

MDaemon Connector for Outlook Client Settings
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

Visit the MDaemon Connector for Outlook product page to learn more!

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

Visit the MDaemon Antivirus page to learn more.

MDaemon Antivirus - Mailbox Scanning
MDaemon Antivirus – Mailbox Scanning

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!

 

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Keep your Mail Server Running Smoothly with Today’s MDaemon Maintenance Update

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MDaemon Email Server UpdateTo ensure MDaemon and its plugins provide the most up-to-date security and best performance, we often provide maintenance updates to help our customers get the most out of their business email and collaboration server.

Today, we’ve released MDaemon 19.0.2. With this update, we’ve squashed a few minor bugs and updated MDaemon Connector for Outlook to version 6.0.2.

More information on what’s included in these updates can be found in the MDaemon release notes.

Are you running an older version of MDaemon? If so, you could be missing out on many features we’ve recently added, including integrated chat and saved searches in MDaemon Webmail, new ways to share your MDaemon calendars, Message Snooze, and much more.

Visit the MDaemon Download page to download the best ever version of MDaemon!

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Introducing MDaemon 19 – with Updates for Security, Reporting, & Webmail

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This week, we released version 19 of the MDaemon Email Server, with new features that benefit administrators and end users. The following is a summary of key improvements for email security and productivity. You can view the complete list of new features and updates in the MDaemon release notes.

New MDaemon Email Server Features for Administrators

One of the first things administrators will notice is that the behavior of the “Start MDaemon” Start menu shortcut has changed. When clicked, you’ll now be taken to MDaemon Remote Administration via your browser. If you’d like to launch the MDaemon Email Server console directly, you can use the “Open MDaemon Configuration Session” shortcut, as shown here:MDaemon Email Server Start Menu

Enhanced Integration with Third-Party Plugins

MDaemon’s XML-API has been expanded to include additional capabilities. Folders and their contents can be created, deleted, renamed, and moved using the API. Developers can use these expanded features to display or manipulate the content of user mailboxes.

“External Message” Warning

A new “External Sender” Content Filter condition has been added, along with a new “Add a warning to the top of the message” action. This allows MDaemon administrators to create a rule that will add a custom warning to the top of all email messages originating from external sources – providing extra protection against phishing attempts by alerting users to treat these messages with extra care.

External Message Warning in MDaemon Email Server
External Message Warning

Extnernal Sender Warning

Support for Separate SSL Certificates for Each Host/Domain

MDaemon supports TLS Server Name Indication (SNI). This allows domains and host names to have their own assigned SSL/TLS certificate, rather than having to share a single certificate.

MDaemon - Support for multiple SSL certificates

New Authentication Failure & Frozen Account Reports

MDaemon’s Dynamic Screening feature includes the option to send authentication failure and frozen account reports to end users. When a given number of authentication failures has been reached, or when an account has been frozen, the user is notified so that corrective action can be taken.

MDaemon Authentication Failure Reports
MDaemon Authentication Failure Reports

New MDaemon Email Server Features for End Users

MDaemon Webmail – “All Unread” and “All Flagged” Saved Searches

When logging in for the first time, MDaemon Webmail users will receive a prompt asking if they would like to create an “All Unread” and “All Flagged” saved search for convenient, one-click access to unread or important email messages.

MDaemon Webmail Saved Search - All Unread All Flagged

MDaemon Webmail – Expired Session Indicator

MDaemon Webmail will display (EXPIRED) on the browser tab when a user’s session has expired. This allows users who have multiple browser tabs open to be notified when they have been logged out of MDaemon Webmail without having to switch tabs.

MDaemon Webmail Expired Session Notification
MDaemon Webmail Expired Session Notification

Other MDaemon Email Server Improvements Include:

  • Autodiscover support has been expanded to accommodate a wider variety of connecting email clients (including eM Client, Thunderbird, Outlook, and others). The service can also now be configured to pass a custom host name to the connecting client on a per-service basis (for example: administrators can configure ActiveSync to connect to activesync.domain.com and IMAP to connect to imap.domain.com, etc.).
  • The option “Only send antivirus update notification on failure” is now enabled by default, and when updating to MDaemon 19, it will be enabled the first time MDaemon starts up.
  • MDaemon Remote Administration New Features:
    • Added license management options to the Registration page.
    • Added AntiVirus Updater and Scheduler dialog
    • Added queue counts, process message counts, other process counts, session statistics, and more process states to the Status page.
  • The MDaemon AntiVirus configuration screen has been updated. Both antivirus engines (Cyren and ClamAV) can now be configured from a single screen.
  • When ActiveSync is disabled for a domain, administrators will receive a pop-up asking if they would like to revoke ActiveSync access for users of the selected domain. This makes it easier to revoke access and reduces the usage of ActiveSync licenses.
  • The STARTTLS White List now takes precedence over the STARTTLS Required List and the “SMTP server requires STARTTLS on MSA port” option.
  • New options have been added to Security | Spam Filter | Spam Honeypots and Security | Security Settings | Screening | SMTP Screen to enable/disable the Dynamic Screening notification when an IP is blocked.

These are the main highlights. For a complete list of new features & enhancements in the latest MDaemon Email Server, please see the MDaemon release notes. If you’re not currently using MDaemon and would like to learn more about how MDaemon can save your company time and money, click here to download your free trial!

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MDaemon Technologies Announces New Email Security Gateway Services in the Cloud

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SecurityGateway 6.0 with Archiving

The latest version of Security Gateway for Email Servers includes new cloud services, expanded Data Leak Prevention rules and integrated archiving features to help companies affordably protect user email.

Archiving Features in Security Gateway
Archiving Features in Security Gateway

MDaemon Technologies announced the release of Security Gateway for email servers version 6.0 that includes a new enterprise class Security Gateway hosted cloud service and fully managed dedicated servers for end users, MSPs, VARs, Systems Integrators, and IT Consultants. The flexible options of using either on-premise software or the new email security cloud services include an expanded and flexible set of Data Leak Prevention (DLP) rules to quarantine outbound messages and help protect a company from sending sensitive or confidential information via email.   And the addition of integrated email archiving at no additional cost provides customers with affordable, flexible and easy to use features to protect email servers located anywhere in the world.

Prevent leaks of sensitive data with Security Gateway
Data Leak Prevention in Security Gateway

“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.”

MDaemon Technologies’ SecurityGateway for Email Servers incorporates multiple antivirus engines and proactive Outbreak Protection technology to detect viruses, spam, phishing, spyware, and various types of Business Email Compromise threats. Along with inbound and outbound email quarantine features, Security Gateway assures the accurate delivery and receipt of legitimate email.

To learn more or request a quote, visit Security Gateway for Email Servers.

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The Evolution of MDaemon – 1996-2019 & Beyond!

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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.

Here’s to an exciting and productive 2019!

 

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MailStore 11.2 – With Outlook & Exchange 2019 Support & More!

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MailStore Email Archive ServerIt’s that time again. Our friends at MailStore have released their latest & greatest version of the MailStore archive server – version 11.2, with support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, plus continued support for all other email platforms, including MDaemon.

“But do I really NEED an archiving solution?”

In short, YES! With most businesses relying on email to send sensitive information to customers, partners, and suppliers, you need a backup solution for a variety of reasons, including protection against ransomware, accidental deletion, disaster recovery, e-discovery, and compliance to regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR.

While it may be tempting to hold off on upgrading to a new release, keep in mind that the threat landscape is constantly evolving, and security is more important than ever before. Upgrading to the latest version will help you stay protected against the latest threats.

Are you an existing MailStore user? If so, you can upgrade by entering your MailStore product key here, or download your free trial & start archiving your email!

 

 

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