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CMailServer is a mail server software for Windows, which provide web based email service. You can use it to setup your own Internet mail server and provide e-mail service for your company and friends. CMailServer is also an anti-virus mail server and anti-spam email server. It's easy to control your pop3/smtp mail connections. This web mail server provides an open developing interface for web developers who want to customize the web mail pages.

CMailServer is an easy-to-use mail server software for Window 2000/NT/98/ME/XP. For more details of CMailServer, please click here. Also you can download it here for a trial.

CMailServer User Manual

Detailed Configuration Instructions

Detailed Configuration Instructions

Basic Settings Instructions

Click Options button on the toolbar.

Run as LAN mail server, Run as INTERNET mail server and Run as LAN/Dial-up mail server: These are types of mail server you can choose from.
Enable ESMTP: This is used to set SMTP account and password verification.
Run as NT service: This can launch NT service (only for Win NT/Win 2000/XP).
Enable Mail Proxy: It is used to open mail proxy and enable client to send and receive email via CMailServer mail proxy.
Single Domain: It is used to set CMailServer as a single domain mail server.
Multiple Domain: It is used to set CMailServer as a multiple domain mail server.

Advanced Settings Instructions

Click Options -> Advanced

Internet Mail

Primary Internet DNS: This is used to set the Internet DNS server address. When sending email to other Internet mailing address, the mail server should obtain the MX record of target mailing address via the Internet DNS server.
Secondary Internet DNS: This is used to set the secondary Internet DNS server address. When access to primary Internet DNS fails, CMailServer uses the secondary Internet DNS to analyze the mailing address (optional).
Maximum Tries: If email sending fails, CMailServer will try again. This item is used to set the maximum number of tries.
Time Interval Before Next Try: This is used to set the time interval between each try.
Try ISP SMTP if direct sending failed: Some Internet mail servers use IP filter function to block spam emails. It also may block the regular emails from your mail server. CMailServer uses this option to solve this problem. CMailServer sends mail to the ISP smtp server first, then ISP forwards this email to the destination email address.
ISP SMTP server: input a popular email ISP SMTP server address.
ISP email address: input an ISP email address.

Account

Sign-up of Mail Account Needs Authorization: This is used to manage the registration of mail accounts. With this option selected, the user can register an account but the account is disabled until the administrator activates it.
Local Mail Address Can Be Abbreviated: If this option is selected, when sending email to local user, you only need to input the target mail address as the target mail user account.
The "@MailDomainName" part can be ignored.
Default Mailbox Size: This is used to set the default size of new mailbox.
Enable Sign up Account Via Web Mail: This enables or disables the signup service in web mail.
Copy All the Mails to Mail Address: This is used to copy all the emails within CMailServer to a referred mailbox, which can be used as email backup.
Check POP3 Mail: This enables receiving remote pop3 emails within time interval.

Log

The CMailServer log service can log all the events of mail server.
Sys log: Saves all the mail server events.
SMTP log: Saves all the SMTP mail server events.
POP3 log: Saves all the POP3 mail server events.
Internet log: Saves all the events regarding sending emails to the Internet.

Save Logs to File: Used to set log file saving path.
Maximum Lines: Sets the maximum lines of log files.

Email filter

Email Filter List: you can add the email address to the list if you want to block it. For example: free@aaa.com. Or you can block all the email addresses with the same domain. For example: @aaa.com.
IP Address Block List: input the IP address of the email that you want to block. E.g. 202.202.202.202. Also you can add an IP range. E.g. 202.168.0.1-202.168.0.255.

Miscellaneous

Language selection: Selecting the language for program interface and web mail interface.

Minimized: When CMailServer starts up, it will be minimized and visible only as a system tray icon.
Autostart: CMailServer will be automatically startup when Windows starts up.
Autolock: CMailServer interface will be automatically locked when windows stats up. You can also select the menu operation -> lock interface to lock interface manually. When the interface is locked, click the tray icon and the login dialog box will popup. Input the admin password to unlock the interface. Go to menu Tools -> Administrator password to change admin password.

POP3 Port: Used to set the port of POP3 service. Default value is 110.
SMTP Port: Used to set the port of SMTP service. Default value is 25.
Account Port: Used to set the port of Web Mail account service. Default value is 8011.

Enable Proxy: If the computer that installs CMailServer accesses the Internet via proxy, to send/receive web mail, you need to input the address of proxy and port number.
Enable Anti-Virus: Input the IP address of the computer in the LAN that installs anti-virus software and Port 110. (If the anti-virus software is installed on the server, the IP address should be 127.0.0.1) Then CMailServer can provide anti-virus function for clients. We recommend using Norton Antivirus.
Enable Anti-spam: All spam emails will be moved to trash folder. Users can login on Webmail and read those spam emails.
White list: It can be domains or IP addresses. CMailServer anti-spam will pass by white list. For example, "@topmail.com;202.201.0.;203.202.1.2;" means all emails sent from "topmail.com", 202.201.0.1-202.201.0.255 and 203.202.1.2 will pass anti-spam process.

Other Features and FAQs

How to Create Mail Group

Right click mouse, select Create new group in the popup menu, input the group name and select the members. After creating a mail group account, all emails sent to this mail group account will be automatically delivered to all members of this group.

How does Administrator Modify Users' Password

Select the user whose password is to be modified from user list, double click mouse, the popup Edit/View Account dialog box appears. Select Change User Info, and then the user password can be edited. This function is used to help those users who forget their password.

How to Send Mail to All Users

Click the Mail to button on the toolbar.
This function enables administrator to send email to all the users.

How to Create User Information Report

Click the Report button in toolbar.
This function is used to create HTML, INI, EXCEL and TEXT format of users information report.

How to Compose Welcome Mail for New User

Menu Tools -> Compose welcome mail.

How to View Internet Mail Transfer Status

Select Menu Tools -> Internet Mail Transfer Status.
Select Mail in transfer, you can view the mail status or stop mail during transfer.
Select Mail undelivered, you can view the undelivered mail information, retransfer or delete undelivered mails.

How to Catch All Wrong Address Emails

Open 'CMailServer\config.ini' and modify 'EnableCatchAll=0' to 'EnableCatchAll=1'. All wrong address emails sent to this mail server will be sent to 'admin@maildomain.com'. If you want send all wrong address emails to another emailbox, you can set 'AccountCatchAll=someone' or 'AccountCatchAll=someone@mail1.com'.

Note: if the mail server is a multiple domain names mail server, you should create an admin mail address for each mail domain.

How to Upgrade or migrate CMailServer

How to Upgrade

1. Backup folder "db" and "mail" in CMailServer installation folder. If you customized the Webmail scripts, you also need to backup folder "Webmail".
2. Uninstall CMailServer and reboot server.
3. Install the new version to the original installation folder.

How to Migrate

1. Install CMailServer to new path or new server.
2. Copy folder "db" and "mail" from the original installation folder to the new installation folder.

CMailServer is a mail server software for Windows, which provide web based email service. You can use it to setup your own Internet mail server and provide e-mail service for your company and friends. CMailServer is also an anti-virus mail server and anti-spam email server. It's easy to control your pop3/smtp mail connections. This web mail server provides an open developing interface for web developers who want to customize the web mail pages.

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