Information Systems:M-Daemon Mail Server - Revision history

Aaront: /* Problems */

2021-04-22T19:17:38Z

Problems

Norwinu at 16:33, 17 October 2019

2019-10-17T16:33:39Z

Darrenf: /* Overview */

2019-07-24T16:59:03Z

Overview

Darrenf: /* Problems */

2019-07-18T21:37:32Z

Problems

Darrenf at 17:48, 8 May 2019

2019-05-08T17:48:20Z

Norwinu at 19:50, 22 June 2016

2016-06-22T19:50:18Z

Norwinu at 19:50, 22 June 2016

2016-06-22T19:50:11Z

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=Overview=
=World Client=
Web Browser Email For Shareholders

MDaemon has a built in web server that is installed on the mail server. The web server is secured with an SSL certificate and the URL is

https://mail.unipharm.com

This website shows up as “World Client”. Think of it as iNotes for MDaemon. Any email account in MDaemon is accessible using this website. The username is the full email address and the password is the password for that email account.

For example

Username test@unipharm.com
Password bed

Only a few shareholders use this service, the majority still use various flavours of Outlook or some other email program. Internet Explorer version 10 and 11 and recent versions of Firefox are required for the World Client website to work. IE 6,7,8,9 will not work.
=Problems=
==Locked Accounts==
MDaemon may automatically accounts based on certain activity patterns. One such rule is the attempt SMTP sending of 250 outbound messages in 30 minutes. This indicates a hijacked account, and requires that the password be changed for the account. Following, this any active SMTP sessions (likely many if this is a botnet hijack) need to be terminated, and this is best done by restarting the SMTP server component of MDaemon.

[[Category: Email]]
[[Catgory: Servers - Software]]

Darrenf at 21:31, 27 April 2016

2016-04-27T21:31:44Z

Norwinu at 20:19, 24 February 2016

2016-02-24T20:19:15Z

172.30.19.122: /* Locked Accounts */

2015-11-20T22:08:35Z

Locked Accounts

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 * Then look at the sixth comma separated field - that's the password.  If the field is blank then the password is blank.
 * When you close the text file, the file is deleted by MDaemon however the shortcut to the file remains on the Desktop.  Yes I know its odd behavior.
 ==Locked Accounts==

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-=Overview=
+==Overview==
 MDaemon is a full featured email server that can be considered an alternative to Exchange or Domino or even O365.  MDaemon is able to serve as an SMTP, IMAP, POP3 host and can handle many hundreds or thousands of email accounts.  The software has a fully featured webmail interface called WorldClient and a web based administration page that mimics most of the configuration options that exist in the GUI.  At uniPHARM, the practice is to use the MDaemon GUI to do administrative tasks such as creating new email accounts or watching server activity in real time.  MDaemon also acts as a smart host for IBM Domino standing between Domino and the public internet.  MDaemon is positioned in this manner because configuring its security settings are much easier compared to Domino.  Getting logs from MDaemon is also considerably easier compared to Domino and how the GUI displays configuration options just appears to be more logical and easier to use compared to Domino, plus its safer to expose SMTP, IMAP, POP3 ports from the public internet to MDaemon than allowing all that dirty public traffic onto an interface on the Power8.
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 The other important thing to note about the Mail VM is that even though the Administrator username and the password are the same as the domain admin credentials, this VM is not a domain member server.  It is a standalone server not connected to Active Directory because that would require too many holes punched into the firewall DMZ, which is where this VM lives on the network.  We were looking at a project earlier in 2019 to move the Mail VM out of the DMZ and to close down the DMZ because it's just not needed anymore.  That all got shelved for higher priority stuff so just keep in mind that Mail is not connected to AD and doesn't get any GPOs but the local administrator password happens to be the same as the domain admin password.
-=World Client=
+==World Client==
 Web Browser Email For Shareholders
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 Only a few shareholders use this service, the majority still use various flavours of Outlook or some other email program.  Internet Explorer version 10 and 11 and recent versions of Firefox are required for the World Client website to work.  IE 6,7,8,9 will not work.
-=Problems=
+==Problems==
 Shareholder pharmacies may call in with an email related question that turns out to be an unknown password.  MDaemon does not display email account passwords unless they are exported into a text file along with all of the rest of the account parameters.  Below is a step by step procedure to view what a password is for email accounts in MDaemon.  It seems complicated but its not.
 * Remote desktop into the Mail virtual machine.  The domain administrator username and password are in the spreadsheet on the SuperServer

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	If our install of MDaemon does need to be moved to a new VM, the daily configuration backup is going to be absolutely critical because that config backup holds all the settings for MDaemon. According to Alt-N, in order to move the install you first stop all services do an in place upgrade to the latest version, copy the C:\MDaemon folder to the new VM, run the latest installer version again on the new VM and reboot. The new VM would ideally have the same IP and host name and DNS settings as the old VM (which would be off) and that should be enough to get MDaemon up and responding on a new VM. Also, if a move is needed, its necessary to understand that there are shareholder pharmacies that do use our MDaemon server for all of their email needs. Some pharmacies are using O365 or Gsuite but some are dependent on MDaemon and any configuration changes need to have that in mind.		If our install of MDaemon does need to be moved to a new VM, the daily configuration backup is going to be absolutely critical because that config backup holds all the settings for MDaemon. According to Alt-N, in order to move the install you first stop all services do an in place upgrade to the latest version, copy the C:\MDaemon folder to the new VM, run the latest installer version again on the new VM and reboot. The new VM would ideally have the same IP and host name and DNS settings as the old VM (which would be off) and that should be enough to get MDaemon up and responding on a new VM. Also, if a move is needed, its necessary to understand that there are shareholder pharmacies that do use our MDaemon server for all of their email needs. Some pharmacies are using O365 or Gsuite but some are dependent on MDaemon and any configuration changes need to have that in mind.
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		+	The other important thing to note about the Mail VM is that even though the Administrator username and the password are the same as the domain admin credentials, this VM is not a domain member server. It is a standalone server not connected to Active Directory because that would require too many holes punched into the firewall DMZ, which is where this VM lives on the network. We were looking at a project earlier in 2019 to move the Mail VM out of the DMZ and to close down the DMZ because it's just not needed anymore. That all got shelved for higher priority stuff so just keep in mind that Mail is not connected to AD and doesn't get any GPOs but the local administrator password happens to be the same as the domain admin password.

	=World Client=		=World Client=

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	[[Category: Email]]		[[Category: Email]]
−	[[~~Catgory~~: Servers - Software]]	+	[[Category: Servers - Software]]

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	===Locked Accounts===		===Locked Accounts===
		+	MDaemon may automatically accounts based on certain activity patterns. One such rule is the attempt SMTP sending of 250 outbound messages in 30 minutes. This indicates a hijacked account, and requires that the password be changed for the account. Following, this any active SMTP sessions (likely many if this is a botnet hijack) need to be terminated, and this is best done by restarting the SMTP server component of MDaemon.
−	MDaemon may automatically accounts based on certain flags.