MDaemon Email Server

Avantages

MDaemon allows for economical, reliable, and customized control of vital email communications. Moving email hosting to cloud has its benefits, but relinquishing control is a big negative. With MDaemon, I control spam filtering, antivirus, and routing rules. As long as MDaemon is affordable and reliable, I will keep email in house.

Inconvénients

Setup is not difficult but there are many steps to get fully implemented.

Avantages

- Stability;
- Scalability - you can upgrade to larger storage with ease, the mailbox content is only limited by how much Outlook pst files can handle;
- Very easy to perform hardware migrations from one machine to another;
- Very light on memory and processing resources;
- Piece of mind when doing version upgrades (all settings are preserved, no nasty surprises);
- It works very well with "previous versions" feature on restoring permanently deleted emails by the user;
- Independence and freedom of implementation according to your business needs: you have total control over it's features and settings. SPF implementation was of a great help in protecting our company from Phishing.
- Very easy to troubleshoot. Being inhouse we had full access to log files and hardware. Downtimes were rare (one two per year) and when they were occurred were in the order of minutes.
- Cost: 500$ per one year support. When it ends, your server keeps running you can still use your server and access data on it. Even so, we opted to continue with support renewal.

Inconvénients

Outlook Connector never lived up to it's name. It didn't performed well with thousands of emails in each folder. I had to return to the Outlook's IMAP profile settings and .pst files to overcome this issue.

Outlook Connector didn't worked well with roaming profiles, since it stored some of it's data in AppData Roaming folder instead of Local and when sync issues existed it led to the deletion of Connector's mail account settings.

Avantages

simple and easy to manage, using form last some years

Inconvénients

easy to use and administrator, easy to manage, Need improvements

Avantages

I love the structure of the GUI and the way the various features are grouped, making administration that much more easier. The mail flow logging through each check is also very helpfull in tracing deliverability.

The best part of Mdaemon I feel is the simplicity and ease when either moving the installation to another physical machine or upgrading the exisiting installation, no other mail solution comes even close. Mdaemons Webmail is also the most advance and best I have used in the 18 years that i have been in the ISP sector, its your entire mail solution online,

accessible from anywhere. Webadmin is also great for remote administration for support staff, without having to access the actual app on the server. The spam assassin intergration also works very well if managed correctly with very few false positives.

Inconvénients

The Outlook connector DB stability and performance is a bit annoying at times and requires constant maintenance once the file size grows. The Live Log viewing and flow via the APP GUI needs to be more manageable, currently you can only print / search the live log, there either needs to be a filter option where your can eitehr filter logs via sender / reciepient / failure etc. or even a terminal option like linux has where you can grep the live log for specific entries.

Avantages

We are a very long time user of Mdaemon email server (going back to the late 90's). I especially enjoy the very easy and straightforward server management it provides. We have also used Microsoft Exchange and, without any hesitation, will always choose Mdaemon over Exchange. There is really no comparison when it comes to ease of management and disaster recovery. I also love the fact I can watch, in real time, email flow and server handshakes. This makes it extremely easy to troubleshoot mail flow issues between servers. The logging is also extremely thorough. Also, the fact that all messages are stored as standard text based .msg files means it is extremely simple to backup and restore mailboxes and perform disaster recovery (if ever needed).
Lastly, there is the price advantage. Mdaemon pricing simply blows all other comparable options out of the water.

Inconvénients

Honestly, there is nothing I dislike about Mdaemon. It performs exactly as needed and is extremely powerful.

Avantages

Mdaemon has many features that very handy in our organization. One of the most useful to me is the logging. Mdaemon can logs its transactions on a day by day basis. This allows me to find (usually myself) the issue to an email delivery or acceptance issue. This is invalueable to me as the admin. Since not every organization uses the correct settings for there email server, the logging allows me to see the problem and bypass it for that specific organization. If I can't find the issue, their tech support has always been able to find my issue and advise on how to fix it.

Inconvénients

The only issue that I have with Mdaemon is really a plus. This is the sheer number of option it contains. This can lead to a little confusion on where to find a setting that you might with to change. Fortunately Mdaemons helps files usually lead me to the correct place. This is usually only an issue with some abnormal
issue and it's just part of the learning curve of the software. Once set up and running it just works

Avantages

MDaemon is an exceptionally broad featured application that can accommodate a very wide range of real-time business scenarios. We setup and run email services for several companies who depend on reliability and the ability to customise their requirements. We run the services in the cloud using AWS which sits well with this product for security and 24/7 usage.

Inconvénients

End users don't need to know some of the complexities of how certain features work, so we do build into our contracts a service element where we do all that for them. Not really a 'con' but any business needing to deploy MDaemon is probably going to leverage the best from the product with a suitable level of support from their IT provider.

Avantages

Ease of implementation. Realistically, it doesn't take much to get MDaemon up and running.

Inconvénients

I wish there was better explanation of some of the features - sometimes the amount of options available becomes overwhelming for someone that administers a mail server 5 minutes a week and does not remain up to date on the latest internet mail features and RFCs.

Avantages

Easy to use, installation , configuration & troubleshooting as well. ove

Inconvénients

Its not resource eater its light weight , easy to handling, support available 24/7 from distributor (Thobson.com) , they have such a supportive and trained staff who working with honesty & resolve client's issue on priority basis.

Avantages

one of the best "windows based" SW ever !

Inconvénients

mobile client and overall web based client experience

Avantages

Prodotto semplice da installare e da amministrare nel tempo. Molto comodo anche lato end user in quanto gli utenti possono essere indipendenti nel poter creare le loro regole; cambi password; firme; inoltri e risposte automatiche. Il software inoltre è compatibile con tanti altri software di terze parti.

Inconvénients

Non mi piace l'interfaccia utente e il software base non supporta alcune funzionalità come contatti e caldendari condivisi.

Avantages

Wir benutzen MDaemon als Antispamsystem, die Möglichkeiten sind vielfältig und die Verwaltung ist übersichtlich.

Inconvénients

Die Komplexität des Systems kann dazu führen, dass Einstellungen sich gegenseitig beeinflussen.

Avantages

installazione semplice, gestione fatta bene seppur con qualche limite, adatto per pmi

Inconvénients

il prodotto ovviamente non può tenere il paragone con altri strumenti soprattutto in caso di realtà enterprise

Avantages

We have been with MDaemon for 14 years. It has proven to be a stable and reliable platform. The content filters are very flexible. After 14 years of tweaking, I now have an email server that stops most junk and malicious emails from reaching my users. The Instant messaging client is an integral part of our internal communications. It has Calendering, Tasks, Notes, all configurable. It's a very affordable alternative to more expensive systems.

Inconvénients

I don't have any dislikes of the system. It just works. Support is phenomenal. The staff can help with any issues.

Avantages

Migration, Upgrade, Deployment, all these admin tasks work easily. User, domain management as well.

Inconvénients

Since we are based in Australia and not on the same timezone, we struggle to get support quickly. I know that there is a paid version that gets you covered 24/7, but we can cope with the overnight answers, that are really helpful BTW.

Avantages

- Low cost solution
- Stability
- Performance
- Reliability
- Support for resolving issues

Inconvénients

- Email encryption should be present.
- Engineering/Developers take long time to introduce few features.

Avantages

Transparent Troubleshooting and Tracing of messages and other errors.

Inconvénients

Trying to find answers in the help section

Avantages

We were previously used Webhosting, MS Exchange, Zimbra and few other email applications and facing severe issues like multipop emails, backup of end users emails, filters and spam issue. Then we decide to test MDaemon v14.5 and it was amazingly help us to fix our all the above issues and also minimize our day to day issue.

Inconvénients

It must have some more filtering options, we are feel that v19.5 is slow processing due to some issues even we are using x64 application.

Avantages

I have been running MDaemon Email Server Software 24/7 since 2001 and v5.x and have watched the development over the years. The folks at AltN are constantly fine tuning features, adding new ones as technology changes and fixing issues when they are reported or discovered. The SPAM handling options are superb and mailing lists are easy for others to manage without my intervention. Webmail is solid.

Inconvénients

There is very little to dislike about this software. AltN has implemented features over time that are important to me.

Avantages

I am using this software from 2013 , when i am new user at that time i am not able to understand this software after that i started to learn , i am very happy and easy to use , now latest version came 19.5 very nice and useful features.

Security Setting
DMARC Settings
Screen Location
SPM Filter

Inconvénients

its is very light and flexible simple user creating...

Avantages

price , folder usage, MDaemon support. Power and ease of Management

Inconvénients

spam elimination is good. It could be great

Avantages

I like how easy it is to use, that it cost a tenth of what any other comparable software (Exchange/O365). I have used it for years, and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to host their own email server, Archive etc...

Inconvénients

WE live in a world where Outlook is king as far as clients for email are concerned, I don't like that the option to work 100% with Outlook cost extra...but, if I could get the Board to spend the money, I would.

Avantages

Quick install and simple configuration. Support is very helpful when we run into complex issues.

Inconvénients

No cons to report as we are happy with the product.

Avantages

Ease and simplicity of setting MDaemon is upfront. Get your organization up and running in less than 60 minutes. Import users if you are migrating in a giffy. Best part is that I can integrate MDaemon with with existing AD in not time! I've been using MDaemon since one and a half decade now!

Inconvénients

Unified Communication Client needs attention, both for functionality and UIX. There is always room for improvement.

Avantages

Mdaemon installation was problem-free and flawless. The help desk reached out to us during installation for support. But, we did not need any support as installation was simple and straight forward. It was easy to install, configure and use even for a non technical person.

Inconvénients

The flexibility can sometimes be overwhelming. Just that you have plan your implementation well.