MDaemon Email Server Reviews

MDaemon is very quick to get set up and running. It is very feature rich.

A few functions require you to use the web mail interface. Where users are used to working exclusivley within Outlook, telling them to switch to web mail can cause questions as to why?

It is a feature rich alternative to Exchange that is easy to administer. Pretty much set and forget.

I've been using MDaemon for 25 years, give or take.

It's packed with useful features in addition to simple email, but it does this whilst still maintaining a small footprint and modest hardware/OS requirements.

It's also very easy to manage, and its use of plain-text config files and a flat file message storage system makes it extremely customisable as well ... I can't think of anything I've not been able to achieve with it, even in some complex scenarios.

Highlights:

- Unlimited email aliases per mailbox, without affecting your licensed user count

- Ability to alias to external email addresses, so you can set up forwarders to email addresses outside your system without using up a mailbox licence

- Powerful mailing list functionality

- Powerful content filter to allow a huge range of operations to be performed dependent on specified message/header contents

- ActiveSync option for full mobile support

- Choice of web-based and/or local GUI management

- Excellent anti-spam/anti-malware/security functionality

- Frequent updates and product improvements

- Integration with MailStore email archiving software

- Outstanding customer support

It's getting increasingly hard for MDaemon to keep up with the low cost and ubiquity of Microsoft Exchange Online / 365 services, which obviously offer great Office and other services integration. However, the developers are constantly adding new and improved functionality to stay current and relevant.

The need for powerful and flexible email functionality at a decent price point and minimal maintenance requirements.

User-friendly Interface, strong security features, easy of implementation, email collaboration, customer support

the spam modul needs improvements, some menus are slower

the easy use for a number of 8500 users brings benefits in the administration of the application and in internal communication

Easy to manage, with many features

Great compatibility with mobile phones (activesync)

stable, I use it from 2007

great number of features and options to activate\deacivate

optimal log

sometimes problem with outlook connector, maybe using activesync protocol with outlook may be more stable.

an integrated, more advanced, antispam would be nice

i have high number of email, lot of worker change and so I have to manage accounts.

It is very easy, there is a very helpful log management.

lot of client have activesync and I have no problem at all

Very easy, user-friendly, secured., dashboard specially, easy to use

IMAP server take time to sync, mobile device

I highly recommended

All problems rleated to emails and domain has been fixed by MDaemon; the first benefit is MDaemon is very productive and cheap in comparison of other

MDaemon's detailed log files enable an administrator to trace any problem email or non-delivery and show their customers any remedial action they need to take. Security is a high priority within MDaemon, blocking rogue IP addresses, filtering out Spam and bogus attachments.

There's very little to dislike about MDaemon. Probably the most daunting aspects are ensuring all setup features are properly enabled and for an inexperienced Administrator, this may seem a challenge. However, MDaemon's support is excellent and with their help and guidance, the ideal setup can be rapidly achieved.

We deploy MDaemon for customers who want a private email server with excellent features and support. MDaemon excels in being able to manage Spam and viruses, along with many advanced email features.

MDaemon Email Server has all the best options like google/office 365 services and can be managed easily with multiple domains. Features like POP3, IMAP and Active Sync. Mdaemon can easily be backed up with all the settings and restored very quickly with all the previous stages, and it can be synced with the Mail store very soon for email backups.

You have to buy licenses for its basic features like MDaemon Firewall and MDaemon connector for email signatures on outlook, and you cannot import email data with their depts and location names.

MDaemon email servers have their features on the same page. Like creating new emails/disabling/deleting, it is effortless to put restrictions on incoming/outgoing emails of employees.

It's not easy to describe what I like about the MDaemon mail server, there are too many things. First of all, this is the interface. I'm not going to say that the interface is perfect, but I'll say for sure that it's the best I've ever had to deal with. This applies to both the server management interface and the user interface. The second thing you should pay attention to is the functionality. The server includes almost the entire set of necessary technologies in the field of mail exchange, both in the field of information protection and in the field of flexibility of settings. Separately, it is worth noting the technical support of the product. In the few cases when I had to contact technical support, I did not have to wait long for an answer, and the problem was either solved immediately, or its solution was planned in the upcoming product updates. This software completely suits me and provides everything I need.

The only thing, perhaps, that I lack in the MDaemon server is a search in logs by date range, well, or I haven't found yet how to do it. It is worth explaining why this functionality is not enough. Suppose that the user sets a task in which he writes that he should have been sent a letter, but he never received the letter, while the user does not know the exact date when this letter should have been received by him. As a result, the mail administrator needs to open a separate log file for every day and search in it. Imagine that the user said that he had been waiting for the letter for the past 20 days. The administrator, in the worst case, needs to open 20 log files sequentially. It's inconvenient.

But this is probably the only negative that I found in the software product.

At first I didn't even know how to answer the question about what problems the MDaemon mail server solves and what benefits it brings. I look at the mail server as a means of solving a specific task or tasks. In my opinion, he has one task - an uninterrupted mail message and he completely solves it. But then I thought a little and realized that there are really a lot of problems: spam, viruses, sending files of huge size, which actually turns the mail system into a file sharing service. All these problems can be solved by means of the MDaemon mail server. To combat spam, the server has validation and antispam functionality, to combat viruses, you can buy an antivirus module or use the Clamav antivirus included in the product, plus it is possible to prohibit the acceptance of attachments by extension, which allows you to exclude executable files from receiving. To combat the sending of large files, you can limit the maximum allowable size of the letter that the server can accept.

1) Logging. We've been using MDaemon since the 90s to diagnose delivery issues with Exchange because everything is beautifully transparent.

2) Security: native support for Geo-IP blocking, automated dynamic blacklisting, the ability to temporarily ban IPs based on excessive authentication failures, deeply granular control of security features... an endless wish-list of well-thought-out features that will make any Exchange admin weep. Truly some of the best security we've ever seen, hands down.

3) Much easier to administer than Exchange - especially certificate management.

4) Stable and robust: we've never seen MDaemon fail completely or corrupt the data as we've seen time and time again with Exchange. We attribute this to the data being stored as individual .msg files in a simple file system instead of an easily corrupted database. You would think having 10s of thousands of files in a single folder would cause MDaemon to choke, and we have seen some performance issues, but so far nothing deal-breaking.

1) Missing feature: Exchange provides a synchronization mechanism for e-mail address autofill lists in Outlook. Mdaemon does not as of version 21.0.2.1 (our current installed version) even when using the MDaemon Outlook connector. We hope Alt-N will address this oversight before Microsoft kills on-prem Exchange in 2025 so we can migrate clients to MDaemon without getting client complaints. This is the only feature missing for us to move forward.

2) Very rare but persistent bug: every few months we see an instance of an email sent using the MDaemon Connector where either the email contains strange corrupt characters or the body of the email is blank. We've brought this to the attention of support but so far the problem remains.

3) The MDaemon Connector is VERY intolerant of bad connectivity and tends to freeze Outlook when the internet connection is spotty.

4) As mentioned in point 4 in the positive section, there is room for improvement in the performance department. It could be addressed by limiting mail items stored in a folder to less than 9999 items and automatically storing addtitional items in a folder tree. Inbox.0001, Inbox.0002, etc.

MDaemon is a well-engineered, robust, mature product with security features wildly superior to anything else we've evaluated.

MDaemon's easily accessed logging in real time is an excellent diagnostic tool that allows us to troubleshoot mail delivery problems on other platforms. This alone justifies our running MDaemon in-house even when many of our clients use Exchange.

Mdaemon provides all the functionality we need from an enterprise mail system.

Most people think its not a good email server as they want to compare it to Exchange. More marketing would assist in creating awareness of this great product

Creating email accounts is a quick process, and we don't have to worry about security as Mdaemon has all the features required to secure your mail