May / June 2008
Welcome to
News@Alt-N. Each month we bring you the latest information about products, recent developments, and tips intended to keep you informed with what is happening at Alt-N Technologies.
In This Issue:
What's New?
SecurityGateway for Exchange/SMTP Servers Now Available!
SecurityGateway for Exchange/SMTP Servers provides affordable inbound and outbound email security for Microsoft Exchange and other SMTP email servers. Customers who were using MDaemon as an email gateway filter for Exchange, Notes, or other SMTP server have discovered that using SecurityGateway now offers new and easy-to-use administrative tools along with robust reporting features.
To see for yourself, put it to the test with a 30-day free trial. |
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Important Notice to All MDaemon Anti-Virus Customers
Alt-N Technologies’ partner, Kaspersky Lab, has recently announced that it is making a change to its virus signature updating process. Consequently, customers that are still using MDaemon Anti-Virus will need to update their software to
SecurityPlus for MDaemon version 4, which is scheduled to be released later next month. We will be providing additional reminders throughout the year in this newsletter, as well as contacting customers directly about this very important change. Please stay tuned.
From Our Family to Yours
Alt-N Technologies is a company whose employees work together as a family to provide the best messaging and security products to you, our customers. But have you ever wondered just who is behind that email, support call, or product feature? Well, we recently held a family picnic and wanted to share a picture of the Alt-N Technologies family.
If you want to share your picture with us and tell us why you like doing business with Alt-N Technologies, we would love to hear from you. Just send us a message to marketing@altn.com. Who knows, maybe we can start building the Alt-N Family social Network! |
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Latest Whitepaper on the Impact of Messaging and Web Threats
Threats to messaging are consistently growing in complexity and approach. Spam, viruses, phishing, abuse and other forms of Malware are no longer the problem of large enterprises. Understanding these threats and the various techniques and technologies to help mitigate risk is more critical than ever before.
This
whitepaper, developed by Osterman Research and sponsored by Alt-N Technologies, discusses messaging and web threats, various delivery models and new approaches and techniques that businesses should consider to protect their inbound and outbound email communications and web traffic.
What Customers Are Saying
MDaemon Email Server Appliance
"Coastal Electric Cooperative is pleased with the MDaemon Email Server Appliance. Alt-N Technologies’ support department worked with us during startup to make sure the appliance was configured and operating as we expected. User administration is straightforward and SecurityPlus for MDaemon’s filtering and algorithm capabilities have significantly reduced the amount of spam received by our email users -- security is much better!"
Jim Benton,
Coastal Electric Cooperative
IT Manager
Recent Alt-N Knowledge Base Articles
Over 100 new articles have been added or updated to the
Knowledge Base to support our latest product,
SecurityGateway for Exchange/SMTP Servers. Check out three of the latest Knowledge Base articles covering MDaemon Email Server for Windows and RelayFax:
01963 — Purpose of a MDaemon configuration session
01967 — Moving RelayFax logs to a different directory or drive
01968 — Why is my RelayFax Logs directory taking up so much space
Did You Know?
Helpful hints to enhance your experience using Alt-N Technologies’ products.
Using Security Certificates Issued by a Third-party CA with MDaemon is simple!
If you have purchased or otherwise generated a certificate from some source other than MDaemon, you can still use that certificate by using the Microsoft Management Console to import it into the certificate store that MDaemon uses. Simply follow these instructions:
- On your Windows toolbar, click Start → Run…, and then type "mmc /a" into the "Open:" text box.
- Click OK.
- In the Microsoft Management Console, click Console → Add/Remove Snap-in… (or press Ctrl+M on your keyboard).
- On the Standalone tab, click Add….
- Click Certificates, and then click Add.
- Choose Computer account, and then click Next.
- Choose Local computer, and then click Finish.
- Click Close, and click OK.
- Under "Certificates (Local Computer)", click the "Certificates" sub-folder under the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" folder if the certificate that you are importing is self-signed. If it is not self-signed then click the "Personal" folder.
- Click Action → All Tasks → Import… and click Next.
- Enter the file path to the certificate that you wish to import (using the Browse button if necessary), and click Next.
- Click Next, and click Finish.
Note: MDaemon will only display certificates that have private keys using the Personal Information Exchange format (PKCS #12). If your imported certificate does not appear in the list then you may need to import a *.PEM file, which contains both a certificate key and private key. Importing this file using the same process outlined above will convert it to the PKCS #12 format.
RelayFax Contact Manager
RelayFax and the RelayFax SMTP Client are each equipped with a complete fax contact and address book management system. It can be used to manage all of your contacts, and supports storing a large amount of information for each one. You can add up to 50 fields for each contact, assign contacts to groups, add notes for them, sort by any field, launch your web browser, phone dialer, or email program, and a host of other features. For more information regarding the various features and options available within the Contact Manager, see its online Help system.
Because any number of the Contact Manager’s data files can be managed at once, and because they can be shared and viewed simultaneously by multiple users, the Contact Manager can be used effectively as both a global and personal address book for the users on your local network. Users can simply click File → Open... within their Contact Manager and then navigate to the *.adx file on the network that contains the shared address book entries. That file will then be incorporated into their local Contact Manager. For remote users, the *.adx files can easily be emailed to their remote location so that they can have access to the shared contacts as well. For more information, see the RelayFax help file or visit our Knowledge Base online at
www.altn.com/Support/KnowledgeBase/.
SecurityGateway can automatically verify users for any SMTP server
SMTP Verification (call forward) is similar to the anti-spam technique Callback Verification. With SMTP Verification (call forward), SecurityGateway will attempt to verify a user via the SMTP protocol. When a message comes in for an unknown user, SecurityGateway will create an SMTP session to the defined domain mail servers SecurityGateway is protecting. If a domain mail server replies that the recipient is OK, SecurityGateway will add the user to its user database and accept the inbound message for processing.
For unknown local senders who attempt to authenticate, SecurityGateway will pass the user's credentials to the SMTP Verification source for authentication. If authentication is successful then the message will be accepted for delivery by SecurityGateway and an account for the user will be created. For accounts that already exist, SecurityGateway will first check the user's login credentials against the local user database. If no match is found there then the SMTP Verification source will be checked.
Product Updates
Get Ready for MDaemon 10!
Scheduled for release late next month, MDaemon Email Server for Windows version 10.0 offers what you love about MDaemon and makes it even better. With improved performance and a new Graphical User Interface (GUI) to make it even easier to use, you’ll want to be sure the new MDaemon Email Server for Windows version 10 is supporting your business.
Renew your
Upgrade Protection today to receive the benefits of one of the most widely used Windows-based email servers on the Internet!
RelayFax Network Fax Management 6.7.6
This most recent update of
RelayFax has improved the functionality and performance of the fax engine. And this latest version includes additional options for choosing your contact manager, including using the MS Windows Address Book.
Download the latest version today!
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