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The Bottom Line
MDaemon is a solid and well-rounded mail server that you can trust. Smart spam filtering and good integration with virus scanners help you use the benefits of email without its current drawbacks.
Pros
- MDaemon is a reliable and fully featured server
- Includes strong spam and virus protection
- MDaemon has flexible routing and filtering options
Cons
- MDaemon configuration can be overwhelming
Description
- MDaemon is a multi-domain SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP and web-based email server.
- Includes calendaring and scheduling services (replacing Exchange) as well as instant messaging.
- MDaemon fights spam with flexible relaying control, tarpitting, blackhole lists and throttling.
- Powerful content filters can automate many mail handling tasks, some present filters for viruses.
- In addition, MDaemon includes SpamAssassin and trainable Bayesian spam filters.
- Support for SPF implements sender domain authentication and helps prevent address spoofing.
- MDaemon can collect mail from POP accounts and route it to local users.
- Offers versatile mailing lists with ODBC data source support. Accounts can be stored via ODBC, too.
- MDaemon can be configured and controlled remotely via a web-based interface.
- MDaemon supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - MDaemon 7.1.2 - Mail Server
MDaemon is a mail server you can trust. Its reliability and scalability build on a robust and long-standing core. Over time, more and more features have been thrown in, and so you'll find a comprehensive solution for most email challenges in MDaemon. There's web-based access including a WYSIWYG HTML editor, for example, or instant messaging, and you can use MDaemon Groupware as a replacement for Exchange.
The core mail services are powerful, too, with impressive routing and content filtering. MDaemon comes with a great set of features to ban spam, including tarpitting, integrated SpamAssassin scoring filters and, best of all, Bayesian filtering, trained easily via public folders or by forwarding mail to certain email addresses. You can also make MDaemon update SpamAssassin and its rules automatically to keep up to date with the latest spammer tricks.
In addition to these filtering techniques, MDaemon supports SPF (Sender Policy Framework) to combat sender spoofing by spammers, worms and phishing scams. Due to the number of features, configuring MDaemon can take some time and effort, though.
