Ipswitch IMail Server is an email server application with groupware functionality that runs on Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 Windows OS. It was developed in 1994 by Ipswitch, Inc.

Ipswitch, Inc.

Ipswitch develops and markets software products and services for businesses worldwide. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Ipswitch also has Research & Development centers in Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia, American Fork, Utah, and Madison, Wisconsin, and a European support office in...

, a software company based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Features

Ipswitch IMail Server is a Windows email server that includes the following services: Webmail, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, and List Server. Additional features include collaboration for Outlook

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...

 data, Commtouch

Commtouch

Commtouch is an Internet security technology company founded in 1991. The company is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, with a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, California....

 anti-spam, anti-virus protection powered by BitDefender

BitDefender

BitDefender is an antivirus software suite developed by Romania-based software company Softwin. It was launched in November 2001, and is currently in its 15 build version...

, email archiving, instant messaging

Instant messaging

Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...

 and solutions for installing IMail on a hosted server. IMail Server licenses are available in packages for 10, 25, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2500 and unlimited number of users.

Supported Clients

Any standards-based client including Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...

, Outlook Express

Outlook Express

Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9...

, Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...

, Eudora

Eudora (e-mail client)

Eudora is an e-mail client used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also supports several palmtop computing platforms, including Newton and the Palm OS....

,
IMail Server’s web client, and all mobile devices supported by Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

ActiveSync

ActiveSync is a mobile data synchronization technology and protocol developed by Microsoft, originally released in 1996. There are two implementations of the technology: one which synchronizes data and information with handheld devices with a specific desktop computer , and another technology,...

 including the iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

.

Technical Specs

IMail can handle as many as 300,000 users, with an average message flow of ~25 per second / ~2 million a day.

Support for 32 and 64 bit platforms. IIS

Internet Information Services

Internet Information Services – formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. It is the most used web server after Apache HTTP Server. IIS 7.5 supports HTTP, HTTPS,...

/.Net Framework

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

 2.0 SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and LDAP Protocol Support RFC 1870 Compliant

Industry Awards and Reviews

Business Computing World review of IMail Server Premium v11.01 http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/?p=2309

PC Magazine voted IMail Server as Editor’s Choice – March 2009 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342327,00.asp

Network Computing Awards 2008 Messaging Product of the Year http://www.imailserver.com/resources/pdf/2008%20Messaging%20Product%20of%20the%20Year%20-%20IMail%20Press%20Release.pdf

Release history

• In 1994, Ipswitch begins selling IMail Server, the first software product available for sale and immediate download via Open Market.
• In 1995, Ipswitch releases family of Windows NT Internet Servers
• In 1996, Ipswitch announces the first self-monitoring email server for Windows
• In 1997, Ipswitch announces IMail Server 4.0 - the first email server to protect users from Spam
• In 1998, Ipswitch's IMail Server is first to bundle Web Messaging and E-Mail-to-Pager with IMail Server version 4.0 for WindowsNT
• In 1999, Ipswitch unveils IMail Server 6.0 for Windows NT
  Windows NT
  Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...
  
  
• In 2001, Ipswitch, Inc. Unveils All-In-One Anti-Virus Messaging Solution
• In 2003, Ipswitch announces release of IMail Server 8.0
• In 2003, Ipswitch enters corporate instant messaging market with release of Ipswitch Instant Messenger
• In 2004, Ipswitch expands IMail Server anti-spam offering
• In 2005, Ipswitch launches Ipswitch IMail Server, Secure Edition
• In 2006, Ipswitch announces worldwide availability of IMail Server Plus 2006.1
• In 2007, Ipswitch announces availability of IMail Server 2006.2 with enterprise-level anti-spam and additional anti-virus from BitDefender
• In 2008, Ipswitch Messaging announces release of IMail Server Version 10
• In 2008, Ipswitch Messaging announces two new email archival solutions for IMail Server - MailArchiva Enterprise Edition and Sonian Hosted Archival System
• In 2008, Ipswitch Messaging introduces IMail Server v10.02 with newly integrated Commtouch
  Commtouch
  Commtouch is an Internet security technology company founded in 1991. The company is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, with a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, California....
  
   Anti-Spam and Reputation service
• In 2009, Ipswitch Messaging announces release of IMail Server v11 with mobile synchronization capabilities
• In 2009, Ipswitch Messaging announces release of IMail Server v11.01 featuring DomainKeys
  DomainKeys
  DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system designed to verify the DNS domain of an e-mail sender and the message integrity. The DomainKeys specification has adopted aspects of Identified Internet Mail to create an enhanced protocol called DomainKeys Identified Mail...
  
   and DKIM
• In 2010, Ipswitch Messaging announces release of IMail Server v11.02 featuring new administrator capabilities
• In 2010, Ipswitch Messaging announces release of IMail Server v11.03 featuring availability of Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection

External links

• Official Ipswitch IMail Server Website
• Ipswitch, Inc. Website