AXIGEN Mail Server ISP/SP Edition 7.1.4 / 7.2 Beta

AXIGEN Mail Server ISP/SP Edition 7.1.4 / 7.2 Beta is a perfect choice for Service Providers, the ISP email server solution offers high-end features such as: clustering support in multi-tier setups, delegated administration, account classes, all leveraging on the failsafe UltraStorage infrastructure and SmartProcessing technology.

Benefits:

• Clustering support and LDAP integration
• Delegated Administration and Account Classes
• Skinnable, multi-language
• WebMail interface for mobile phones
• Advanced security features
• Customized support plans

Major Features:

1. Effortless Administration & Server Operations: Smart structured administration offers the option of local or remote access to servers. With the web-based administration front-end, configuration is a breeze and maintenance simple and straightforward, while all day-to-day tasks can be easily automated.
   • Account Classes - enable system administrators to create different classes (groups) of accounts, in order to provide basic and premium accounts, differentiating the service levels (such as allowed services, message size quota, filters applied, etc). Administrators can configure different behavior patterns for the account classes they create. Changes of behavior patterns of an account class will be dynamically inherited by all its accounts.
   • Delegated Administration - create multiple administrative users and groups with predetermined membership hierarchies and permissions, having limited administrative rights, thus allowing the delegation of administrative tasks for a specific domain/subdomain or even for specific domain or subdomain operations (such as creating and managing new users, mailing lists, groups, etc)
   • Web administration console - configure service specific parameters through Axigen's comprehensive WebAdmin interface designed for optimized navigability, with quick links and contextual help.
   • Automated operations - automate administrative and provisioning tasks using the CLI (Command Line Interface)
   • Reporting engine - by using the Reporting Engine, system administrators can monitor the server's health and activity. The increased granularity of the reporting service allows administrators to easily generate & export charts and reports at server level, for a specific domain or subdomain (useful for Service Providers monitoring multiple domains and required to provide reports for each customer) or even for specific users in special cases. For easier parameter comparison, the charts can be zoomed and may display multiple parameters; aggregation functions such as average, max, min, etc can be applied to allow relevant representations.
   • Single Point Administration - Web Administration interface provides configuration of all Axigen services in a unified manner, both locally and remotely.
2. Large Scale Solutions: Axigen relies on its carrier-class technology to sustain complex setups, to provide the required level of service availability and seamless scalability.
   • Clustered multi-tier setups (front-end / back-end) - separate services (such as SMTP / IMAP / POP3, etc) on different tiers to enhance the overall security of the system and to provide service high availability
   • LDAP Authentication and Routing- store account passwords and routing information in a central point to support the multi-tier setup
   • POP3 / IMAP / WebMail Proxies - distribute mailboxes on multiple AXIGEN back-end servers and use separate front-end proxies to route POP3 / IMAP / HTTP connections to the appropriate back-end server
   • RHCS Support - Provide high availability for back-end services
3. SmartProcessing™: The SmartProcessing™ technology reduces email processing time to a minimum by enabling the server to automatically choose the best course of action based on preconfigured options, all without any of the troublesome daily administration chores.
   • Processing Thread control - the administrator can allocate a specific number of parallel threads to each service, making balanced use of the processing power, according to the specific needs.
   • Queue Management - messages in the queue can be inspected by the administrator using different filters, such as sender, message size, retry count, etc; different actions (such as: delete, reschedule, send NDR) can be taken on the matching messages.
   • Virtual Queues - for each distinct remote domain, Axigen creates a separate queue, protecting the server from potential overload generated by multiple simultaneous email sending attempts to an unresponsive domain. All messages for the unresponsive domain are held from delivery until the first email is successfully sent.
   • Cached Queue - messages in the queue that are soon to be delivered are cached; the administrator can define the size of this cache according to the amount of available memory.
   • Hashed Queue Structure - the queue items are stored in a hashed structure allowing rapid access to message related information
   • Retry Policies - define message retry policies for specified source or destination domains (or message or connection parameters), for example the server allows an increased number of retries for messages sent by premium users or delivered to important destinations.
   • Virtual Routing - control the routing of specific messages through specific outbound IP addresses based on various message parameters. By assigning different outbound IP addresses for each domain, the effect of one domain being blacklisted does not propagate to the other domains on the same server.
   • Built-in DNS Cache - accelerates the delivery of messages by caching DNS responses for use on multiple messages
4. UltraStorage™: The intelligent UltraSorage™ system helps avoiding service downtime or loss of data even when dealing with traffic peaks in the email flow or performing complex backup operations.
   • Indexed Data Structure - ensures an optimal balance between the space used for storing indexes and the time to access information by introducing multiple levels of indexes depending on how often information is accessed.
   • Transactional Storage - provides structural integrity for the stored information by performing transactional data access.
   • Error Detection and Recovery - the storage module identifies and isolates areas with corrupted information in order to prevent subsequent data loss
   • Effective Space Management - only one copy of a message received by multiple recipients is stored (particularly useful for distribution lists and groups)
   • Expandable Storage - the administrator can add subsequent storage units to one domain, thus increasing the available space.
   • Storage Overload Prevention - ensured by limiting allowed message sizes according to specific policies based on multiple message or connection parameters.
5. AntiVirus and AntiSpam: Axigen is capable to integrate at server level or SMTP level multiple antivirus and antispam applications, building filtering chains that can be applied differentially at server or even domain level.
   • Multiple Filtering System - Application Level
   • Commtouch Real Time AntiSpam Protection
   • Real Time AntiSpam Protection - To prevent Spam outbreaks the minute they occur, Axigen integrates Commtouch's award winning online service as an additional AntiSpam layer*
   • AVG's innovative technology fully complements the cutting edge defensive tool set, providing real-time defense against multiple malware threats.*
6. Security for your email traffic - GrowSecure™
   • AXIGEN Security Features - Application Level
   • Default settings are fully secured against all current threats and several configuration tools are available, including a web-based tool and a command line interface.
7. Fast and Feature-rich WebMail: AXIGEN Mail Server provides users with simple and fast WebMail access to their messages and personal organizers.
   • Customized look and feel - users have the option to choose from multiple predefined layouts, personalizing the web mail experience.
   • Personal Organizer (add-on) - effective time management through calendar, journal, notes and tasks.
   • Rules Wizard (Outlook like) - each user has the ability to define rules for deleting, moving to specific folders or sending automatic replies to messages matching specific criteria.
   • Public and Personal Address Book - quickly add recipients to newly composed messages directly from the personal contacts or from the domain's public address book.
   • Remote POP Connections - collect messages from external POP3 accounts in the user's inbox or in a specific folder.
   • Advanced search - powerful function that allows the user to find the matching messages based on sender, recipient, size, received date or specific header contents.
8. Additional benefits
   • Customized branding - integrate WebMail into the corporate identity using the Axigen HTML templating engine.
   • Optimized message delivery - messages are directly injected by the WebMail server into the processing queue.
9. Localized WebMail interface in lots of languages
10. Mobile Access
    • AXIGEN Mail Server - Push Email & PIM Synchronization Push Email & PIM Synchronization via ActiveSync® Connector - Handling business operations is now easier when using Axigen's built-in Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® support for mobile devices. The Push Email technology and synchronization of Contacts / Calendar / Tasks provides road-warriors with instant access to mission critical information such as messages, contacts or appointments.
    • AXIGEN Mail Server - BlackBerry Support through NotifySync Client BlackBerry® Support (Push Email & PIM Sync) via the NotifySync™ Client - The Axigen and NotifySync™ solution integration grants business travelers instant access from their BlackBerry® devices to relevant data such as emails, contacts or tasks, enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency. The support for BlackBerry® complements AXIGEN Mail Server - Mobile WebMail Interface Mobile WebMail interface - users can access their WebMail account from mobile phones with Internet access to check their emails, compose messages, download attachments and much more.
11. Painless migration from any 3rd party mail server: The migration process is critical to the setup of your new AXIGEN-based email solution; for this purpose, AXIGEN provides a dedicated engine that insures an automatic and transparent migration process. Thus, all domains, accounts and mailboxes from any legacy mail server can be easily migrated to AXIGEN via IMAP, without service interruptions.
12. GoLive! Support and Gold Support Services - tailored to your business mode
    • Around the clock technical support, 365 days a year
    • FREE email support, with guaranteed response time
    • Ticket based incident handling, for easy and swift tracking
    • Free access to knowledgebase, product forums and documentation
    • Premium Support, with telephone support, Level 2 CSE and software maintenance included
    • GOLD Support, introducing free callback hotline; Technical Account Manager (TAM) and monthly reports
    • GoLIVE! Support, providing on-site assistance
13. Low TCO: AXIGEN offers licenses for unlimited numbers of servers, allowing you to perform backup, mirroring and testing operations. Upgrade procedures are extremely simple and inexpensive. Personalized and reliable support services back you up, so that you can keep the focus where it should be: on your customers.
    • Flexible licensing scheme - unlimited number of servers in one location
    • Competitive pricing
    • Tailored support services

Enhancements:

Provides users with a whole new WebMail experience. In addition to being powered by the AJAX technology, the interface has undergone a complete reshaping process to now feature a more intuitive, streamlined design and to improve navigability and manageability. Access to email and attachments has been rendered much easier and faster, thus complementing the optimized look-and-feel of the interface.
The AJAX-based WebMail delivers the usability and performance of a desktop application. It ensures a desktop-like user experience by featuring:

• Advanced navigation:
• • Keyboard navigation
  • Drag-and-drop
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Dynamic loading / caching
  • "Live" email list view (no pagination)
•  Information access improvements
• • Attachment management
  • Frequent folders
• External application integration:
• • SOAP access to mailbox data
  • Advertising capabilities

Requirements:

• RedHat Enterprise: Redhat Enterprise Linux 5, Redhat Enterprise Linux 4
• Fedora: Core 9, Core 10
• SUSE: Suse Linux 11.1, Suse Linux 11.0, Suse Linux 10.3, SLES 10
• CentOS: 5.x, 4.x
• Gentoo: 2008.0, 2007.0
• Ubuntu: Ubuntu Server 8.10, Ubuntu Server 8.04, Ubuntu Server 7.10
• Debian: Debian 4.0, 5.0
• Mandriva: Mandriva 2009.0, Mandriva 2008.1, Mandriva 2008.0, Mandriva Corporate Server 4
• Slackware: 12.2