Progress IMail Server
Windows Email Server, Calendar and Messaging Solution

Overview:

IMail Server provides our customers the most advanced messaging solutions they need without the high costs of other enterprise-class servers. The edge anti-spam filter provided by CYREN protects businesses and improves efficiency by reducing downtime spent dealing with spam.

Reliable. Affordable. Hassle-free.

IMail Server is a complete email messaging solution designed for small to mid-sized businesses and is backed by the industry’s best technical support team.

Admin-friendly

From installation to everyday administration, IMail Server is designed to make life easier for the busy network administrator. Administration can be done through the web or console admin. Top-tier support is available 24×7, whether it is through our quality tech support team, our administrator utilities pack, customer forums, knowledgebase articles or any of the other valuable resources available on our website.

Extensive Features

Below is a quick snapshot of the many features that IMail Server supports. We encourage you to take the time to look through the available items on this page for more detailed technical information on each of these features.

• Mobile Synchronization with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
• Premium Anti-Spam provided by CYREN
• Multiple anti-virus protection options
• Shared calendars, contacts, email, notes, tasks and more with WorkgroupShare
• Instant Messaging
• External Address Verification
• Easy administration controls
• Hacked Account Mail Regulator

Hacked Account Mail Regulator:

Protection from Hacked Email Accounts

Email accounts are constantly under attack by hackers and spammers. Once an email account has been successfully compromised the victim’s email account is then used to send out spam, viruses and/or malware.

IMail Server’s SMTP Service now has the capability to set limitations for a users outbound messages by disabling or throttling a user’s messages once the maximum count within a certain time interval has been met. Additionally, the server administrator can be notified of the offense. For additional peace of mind, IMail Anti-Virus will provide another level of protection.

Mobile Synchronization:

Stay connected with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

More and more business is taking place outside of the office making it critical for companies to enable mobile synchronization for their employees. IMail Server makes all of this possible with the optional integration of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.

Features of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync:

• ActiveSync provides a direct push of your email
• Synchronization of calendar, contacts, and tasks in real time
• Support for all ActiveSync capable devices is included.

Anti-Virus Solution:

Safe. Secure. Peace of Mind.

IMail protects your business and your users from email borne threats by offering Cyren anti-virus technology. Cyren makes use of two different technologies to ensure maximum protection.

IMail Anti-Virus powered by CYREN

The CYREN GlobalView Cloud compiles both historical and up-to-the-minute sender reputation data from highly diverse traffic sources in every country, with coverage from managed services and network hardware devices to desktop software. This patented Recurrent Pattern Detection technology automatically aggregates a high-level view of all senders, distinguishing in real time between legitimate corporate senders, valid publishers, zombies, and spammers/malware distributors.

What Makes IMail Anti-Virus powered by CYREN Different?

• Multiple detection techniques – a multi-layered platform including heuristics, emulation, and signatures is used for maximum protection
• Low resource consumption meaning negligible impact on throughput
• Award-winning technology – received VB100, West Coast Labs and ICSA awards for superior detection rates
• Requires up to half the server space compared to other leading anti-virus competitors
• CYREN Virus Outbreak Detection is included at no additional charge

CYREN Virus Outbreak Detection

CYREN VOD is unique from traditional anti-virus solutions in that it develops protection for new emerging viruses or for variants of known viruses that when released in rapid bursts create an outbreak.

How is CYREN VOD different?

• No signatures – Most AV solutions depend on signature and/or heuristic (rule-based) technology to identify and block viruses. CYREN VOD works independently of signatures, requiring no updates.
• It’s immediate – With no signatures or updates to wait on, CYREN VOD can effectively start detecting virus outbreaks the moment they emerge.

Collaboration:

IMail makes business collaboration easy.

As businesses rely more and more on a mobile, distributed and multi-tasking workforce, having a solid set of collaboration tools is a necessity.

Business users must be able to:

• Communicate with colleagues whether they are down the hall or across the ocean
• Collaborate together on documents without missing crucial changes
• Schedule meetings
• Update contact information publicly
• Track the status of multi-person projects

IMail Server allows Microsoft Outlook users to collaborate with each other effectively through an integrated and easy to use email collaboration platform.

IMail Server Collaboration Features

• Secure within your organization, including free/busy scheduling
• Share Calendars, Contacts, Email, Tasks and Notes
• Public Calendars
• Public Contacts
• User control access to personal folders
• Does not Require an Exchange Server
• Works with Outlook 2000 and Above
• Sync Outlook contacts with Web Messaging

Secure Instant Messaging:

Instant Messaging – Effective Communication…Instantly

IMail Server includes Progress Instant Messenger which allows your users to instantly communicate with others to manage projects, respond to customers and accelerate processes.

Time is Money

Many businesses see the need to take control of their own IM infrastructures, but many of these infrastructures are only offered as add-ons to complex, large-footprint groupware environments that are very costly and require high administrative overhead. Progress Instant Messaging is a manageable secure instant messaging software that gives you a unique combination of features and built-in security.

Make security a priority

IM is so convenient and useful, many users take the initiative to install free IM clients in their work environment, but, because these free services rely on public servers outside the control of the business, they expose the organization to security and confidentiality risks. Proprietary information could be exposed or confidentiality laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be violated unknowingly. Progress Instant Messaging’s built-in security ensures confidentiality and security of your organization’s information.

Administration:

Anywhere Access

All of the server administration features listed below can be accessed in two convenient ways – through our Console Administrator or remotely through our Web Administrator. Simply put, this allows IMail administrators the convenience of viewing and managing their users and system settings from anywhere in the world.

Both options allow easy administrative access to users, domains, services, log viewing and management along with an intuitive interface for the following set of extensive features.

Feature List

• Single and Group Alias Support
• List Support with configurable options
• Create unlimited domains
• Control Message Size on Mailboxes and Domains
• Support for Inbound by Domains and Users
• Outbound Rules Support
• Active Directory Support
• Easy List Management
• Configurable location of logs
• White Lists
• Attachment Blocking
• Copy All Mail
• External Database support (MS SQL, Access)
• Use of virtual domains when limited IP addresses are available
• Unlimited Maximum Mailbox Size
• Maintain Separate Trailer Messages at Domain Level

External Address Verification:

Use IMail as an email gateway server

Mail Server customers now have the option to add External Address Verification (EAV), allowing IMail to be used as a gateway for an internal server. With the addition of EAV, message recipients can be verified as valid users before the message is accepted, eliminating unnecessary strain on both the gateway server and the internal server.

How It Works

External Address Verification is used by SMTP in the RCPT TO and VRFY commands. When one of these commands is received, it is first checked for a local host, then the address is passed to EAV where it is sent to several “verifiers” to determine if the message is valid or not. EAV also makes use of an in-memory cache to reduce the number of queries that must be made to the verifiers. Whenever a verifier returns a positive result for an address, that address is added to the cache for a configurable amount of time. The next time that EAV verifies that address, it will be found in the cache first and immediately return a positive result.

All settings for EAV can be easily accessed in the Console or the Web Administrator.

Users have the option to:

• Enable/Disable
• Enable for specific domains
• Set the memory limit (in MB or %) for the memory cache
• Configure an LDAP/Active Directory verifier

External Address Verification can be added to either IMail Server or IMail Premium at the unlimited user level only.

System Requirements:

Software Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2012 & 2012 R2 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 32-bit Server
• Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 64-bit Server
• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2
• Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
• Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2011
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or later
• Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 or later

Hardware Requirements*

• TCP/IP enabled NIC with a static IP address
• A broadband or dial-up connection to the Internet
• An Intel Pentium 4 1 GHz or higher or an equivalent processor
• 1 GB RAM minimum

* Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync may require greater resources

Web Messaging Client – Supported Browsers

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or later
• Mozilla Firefox 7 or later (for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh)
• Safari 5 and later
• Google Chrome

Email Clients

• Any RFC compliant mail client such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and many others
• Outlook 2000 or later is required for Shared Calendaring

IMail Server Version Comparison:

IMail is a scalable mail server which can suit a variety of needs and functions within your organization. If you need over 2,500 users and POP3 Accounts, Check out Secure Server!

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	IMail Server	IMail Premium	IMail Secure
Features
Scalable, standards-based, email server with Webmail, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP and list server
Basic anti-spam with blacklists, Bayesian filter, phrase filters, and SPF
Trusted Realtime Whitelists
Enhanced security with SSL Encryption, SMTP Auth and dictionary attack sensing
Password sensitivity security controls in Domain Properties
DomainKeys/DKIM
Basic Email Archiving
12 months unlimited support and product updates and patches
24×7 Support Agreement	Optional	Optional	Optional
Secure instant messaging with 168-bit 3DES encryption		‡
Shared Outlook calendars, global address books, tasks and notes with Web access		‡
CYREN Premium anti-spam with automatic updates and network based protection against email borne threats
External Address Verification	Optional †	Optional †
Maximum Number of Users	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync	Optional	Optional	Optional
Integrated Anti-virus	Optional	Optional
CYREN Virus Outbreak Detection (VOD)	Optional	Optional

* IMail Express and IMail Server are also available without Service Agreement
‡ Not included in OEM licenses
† Unlimited user level only