MailEnable - Version 4

The following sections outline the functionality provided in Version 4 of MailEnable. Version 4 of MailEnable is currently available for download.

SyncML (with WBXML)

SyncML allows the synchronization of MailEnable calendar, tasks and contacts with Mobile devices (Phones, PDAs and Outlook).

The SyncML server detects changes made to your contacts and prepares the updates for transmission to SyncML clients. Likewise, changes made on your SyncML device are transacted to the server.

The SyncML server support WBXML for reduced bandwidth and support with leading handset providers.

Mobile Webmail Client

MailEnable now includes a mobile webmail client that can be used on WAP Enabled devices, browsers and mini-browsers to access mail remotely. The client is designed to provide core messaging functionality over low bandwidth.

The Mobile WebMail Client is ideal for those who wish to manage their mail via a mobile appliance or PDA. It can also be used in a regular browser for those who wish to read their e-mail without loading the graphics and scripts of MailEnable's regular webmail client.

Server Storage / My Files

MailEnable now allows users to store documents, files, images, video etc on the MailEnable server in a new storage location. The server storage presents itself as a remote storage location to which you are able to save attachments from messages. You can also then access files from server storage and attach them to your e-mail messages without needing to upload them from your webmail client.

Server Storage Publishing

Mail client users are able to publish folders from their "My Files" Server Storage to the web community. As an example, a webmail user may wish to publish their vacation photos for others to view on the web. To do this, the webmail user simply places their files on server storage (either by uploading them or extracting from e-mail messages) and configures their storage folder to be read by internet users. Other webmail users are then able to use the published URL to view/access the content via their browser and can toggle through the contents of the published folder.

This powerful addition provides a simple and hassle free method for MailEnable end users to publish images, presentations or documents to the greater community.

MailEnable (MAPI) Connector for Microsoft Outlook (Enterprise Premium)

MailEnable Enterprise Premium Edition provides tightly coupled Outlook connectivity to MailEnable. The MailEnable Connector for Outlook provides message store (messages, calendar, contacts and tasks), global address book, transport, public folders and free and busy integration for Microsoft Outlook. Specifically, Outlook users will now have seamless integration between Outlook folders, messages, calendar, contacts and tasks and the MailEnable message store.

The connector receives real time updates from MailEnable, at a property level. Specifically, if a user updates the details of a contact in webmail, any connected Outlook users will see the contact details update in Outlook in real time.

The connector provides a single integrated solution for integrated messaging/scheduling/addressbook within the Outlook client, providing a comparable experience to the level of integration experienced by Microsoft Exchange end users.

The connector also supports delegate access to other mailboxes, meaning that users can share mailboxes, folders, contacts etc to other Outlook and webmail users.

This also provides the massive benefit of allowing MailEnable to tightly integrate with applications that currently interface with the Outlook client. As specific examples, desktop phone synchronization and contact management software that integrate with Microsoft Outlook will interact in real time with MailEnable.

MailEnable is excited at the prospect of bringing this functionality to the market and think that the end user experience and affordability will make it very compelling indeed.

MailEnable Webmail Client

MailEnable's WebMail interface has been updated with some feature enhancements as well as style and layout changes.

The updated webmail client boasts some significant speed improvements over previous versions. The Version 4.x webmail client also includes some cost/management time saving features such as a forgotten password / saved question and answer feature.

Version 4.x webmail includes a new graphical treatment/skin called 'Gun Metal'. The existing skin distributed with Version 3.x has been updated for Version 4.x and is also available.

MailEnable Webmail Personalization

MailEnable's WebMail now allows users to personalize their interface by configuring watermarks, opacity and choosing color schemes.

Webmail users can also upload images to their My Files storage location and configure webmail to watermark these files.

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Extended Calendar Control

MailEnable has replaced its calendar to provide a more usable and practical calendar for webmail users. The new calendar allows you to manage your appointments via drag and drop and inline editing. It also supports calendar overlays to allow you to view calendars simultaneously. Webmail users can now also see free and busy times across multiple months.

The extended calendaring features provide group scheduling features and allow webmail users to overlay calendars of multiple users.

These calendar enhancements, combined with MailEnable's new mobile connectivity provide a powerful feature set for mobile web users.

MailEnable DomainKeys (DKIM)

MailEnable's Domain Keys (DKIM) implementation provides inbound validation and outbound signing of messages. The extensive filtering provided by MailEnable allows you to discriminate messages according to their domain key validation. Administrators can either use inbuilt simple criteria or tailor complex scripts according to filtering requirements.

Improved Monitoring and Security (Mailbox Activity Report)

MailEnable Enterprise Edition Version 4 includes end-user activity reporting. This allows mail users to view the last 5 days of significant activity performed against their mailbox. For example, a user can see whether messages were deleted from their mailbox or even whether an e-mail message to their account has been greylisted/suspended for later delivery.

MailEnable's SMTP service has been updated to provide outbound TLS/SSL support, allowing the secure/encrypted transmission of messages to remote SMTP servers.

Abuse Detection and Prevention Policy

Currently, MailEnable can permanently block IP addresses if they issue too many invalid commands to the server. MailEnable can also lock out accounts after too many failed password attempts.
Version 4 of MailEnable provides a new feature whereby services to maintain a list of IP addresses and record any significant activity. This record can then be used to determine whether the source addresses have violated a security policy and should be temporarily blocked. As an example, an IP address that is connecting and attempting to spoof user accounts might be blocked for an hour as a means of protecting password dictionary attacks.

SMS Connector

MailEnable Enterprise Edition includes an SMS connector to allow you to send SMS messages from MailEnable. Administrators are able to define SMTP addresses that are mapped to mobile phones. Any messages received to that address are processed by the connector.

Mail messages are queued to an SMS message queue where they are picked up by the SMS connector for pre-processing and delivery as an SMS message.

The SMS Connector allows you to select from an array of SMS transmission carriers as well as providing connectivity to any phones connected via USB/Serial interfaces. The Generic/USB SMS device is useful for testing the functionality of the connector without needing to sign up with a bulk sms carrier.

MailEnable has the ability to throttle the usage of the SMS connector and to procure message contents before they are converted to SMS.

Log File Archiving

MailEnable version 4 allows you to archive log files into cabinet files so you may conserve disk space. Compressed files can also be purged/deleted once they become a certain age.

Message Archiving

MailEnable now has the ability to automatically collect and archive by date all messages that are processed by MailEnable. The archiving feature will allow messages to be saved to a folder named by date within a pre selected MailEnable internal mailbox. The administrator can control which messages are archived (according to whether they are being picked up by the Mail Transfer Agent or delivered by the Mail Transfer Agent).

Advertising and Campaign Management

MailEnable's webmail client allows administrators to enable advertising for their webmail customers. The advertising feature allows banner adds to be presented either server wide, or at a postoffice level.

System Administrators are able to logically group advertising material into Campaigns. They can control the frequency of banner rotations and the designated click through URL.

System Administrators and Postoffice Administrators can then select which campaigns they would like to distribute to users.

Subscription Licensing

MailEnable is committed to providing fair and flexible licensing options to its customers. Coinciding with the release of version 4 will be a new subscription licensing option for MailEnable customers. MailEnable customers will be able to purchase annual software maintenance with version 4, which will provide a upgrade assurance to the latest versions of MailEnable.

Feature Availability

The following table lists the availablity of version 4 features in respective versions.

Feature	Professional	Enterprise
Calendar Overlays
SMS Connector
SyncML
Mobile Web Client
MAPI Connectivity
TLS SMTP Outbound support
Advertising and Campaign Management
Server Storage/My Files
Server Storage Publishing
New WebMail Client
New Calendar
DKIM
Event auditing
Abuse Policy
Log File Archiving
Message Archiving
Gun Metal and Clean Skins
Simple Password Prevention
Failed Auth Account Lockout
Scripting on inbound SMTP conversation
SSL support for POP Retrieval

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