MDaemon is a Windows based email and groupware server designed to fulfil the email requirementsof organisations ranging from fewer than 6 users to ones with many thousands of users. MDaemon isa reliable and easy to configure solution that, while being very reasonably priced, still offers morefeatures than virtually every other email server on the market
Installing MDaemonOnce downloaded, run the installation file.
Step through the instal ation until you get to the ‘Registration information’ step.
Registration Information
At this point, simply enter your own name and, if applicable,
your company name and then click ‘Next’. If you have
already purchased a registration key, then you can enter it
here, otherwise leave it blank and the instal er will generate a
30 day trial key for you (the trial key will act as a fully
functional MDaemon Pro licence for unlimited users).
What is your Domain Name? This is where you tel your MDaemon server what domain
name it wil be handling email for.
IMPORTANT: you need to replace the ‘company.mail’
with your own domain name – this is later referred to as
your ‘Primary Domain’ by MDaemon. For this guide, our
domain wil be ‘company.com’. Once done, click ‘Next’.
Please Setup Your First Account This step is straightforward. I’d recommend that you enter
the name of the person who is generally going to be
responsible for managing the MDaemon server as this first
account will become the ‘postmaster’ and wil have full
administrative rights. Note that the password needs to be
‘strong’ ie. A mix of upper and lower case letters and
numbers and at least 6 characters in length.
DNS ConfigurationLeave the tick box ticked to ‘Use Windows DNS settings’. It
is assumed that the machine that you are installing MDaemon
on to already has Internet access in which case, your
Windows DNS settings should already be correct.
Please Setup Your Operating Mode Our recommendation is to leave this option on ‘Advanced’
mode so that you can access al of MDaemon’s features.
Should you wish to switch to ‘Easy’ mode in the future, it’s
extremely easy to switch modes from MDaemon’s ‘File’
menu. Click ‘Next’.
System Service Setup Leave this option ticked. As a service, MDaemon will operate
in the background of the PC even if a user isn’t logged into it
(an icon wil be displayed in the system tray by the clock).
This is important because your MDaemon server wil real y
need to be operating al the time so that your users can
access their email when required. Click ‘Next’
Finished Click the ‘Finish’ button to complete the instal ation and start
MDaemon. If you need to reboot your PC, you will be
prompted to do so.
Final steps required The fol owing are typical final configuration steps that you will need to take to complete the successful
setup of your new email system.
1. Create some new accounts for your users;
2. Configure MDaemon to dial-up your ISP when required (not needed if you use a router for
Internet access);
3. Configure MDaemon’s DomainPOP mail engine (only required if your ISP delivers all email
for your domain to a ‘catch-all’ POP3 account on their email server);
4. Configure your user’s client PCs to send and receive email through your new MDaemon
server.
Create some new accounts
For each user that is to have email, you will need to create an account on your MDaemon server. To
do this select ‘Account Manager’ from the ‘Accounts’ menu. You wil initially see two accounts listed.
One is a system account which you can ignore. The other should be the one that you created during
the instal ation wizard.
To add a new account, simply click the ‘New’ button and you’l be
presented with the screen shown here:-
Simply enter the person’s ‘Full name’, their ‘Mailbox name’ and
their ‘Account password’. By default, passwords are required to
be ‘strong’ ie. a mix of upper and lower case letters and numbers
and at least 6 characters in length.
You will notice as you type in your name, that MDaemon wil
automatically use the name to generate a mailbox name. The
default template for this is:-
$USERFIRSTINITIAL$$USERLASTNAME$
eg. Entering a full name of ‘bil bloggs’ will result in a mailbox
name of ‘bbloggs’. You can modify the template for new account
defaults at any time by selecting ‘New account defaults’ from the
‘Accounts’ menu.
Alternatively you can just enter your own mailbox name for each account as you create them.
Configure DomainPOP mail collection
(NOTE: you only need to configure this if all email for your
domain is delivered into a single ‘catch-al ’ POP3 account
by your ISP – if your ISP delivers email directly to your
server’s IP address using SMTP then you do not need to
enable MDaemon’s DomainPOP collection engine).
Select ‘DomainPOP Mail Collection’ from MDaemon’s
‘Setup’ menu. You wil be presented with the screen shown
on the right.
Tick the option to ‘Enable…’ the engine and enter the
appropriate host name, logon name and password details
for the ‘catch-all’ POP3 account at your ISP. Once done,
click ‘Apply’ and ‘OK’.
That’s it!
You should now have a fully configured and operational MDaemon mail server
