Features - Ability Mail Server

Current Version Is 6.0.0

Ability Mail Server is an advanced, secure and high performing mail server. With support for all standard mail protocols, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP and WebMail, the software can meet the needs of almost any business or home user. Ability Mail Server is fully scalable with support for unlimited users and domains, ODBC and clustering. The mail server also includes strong SPAM protection, on-server antivirus scanning, Content Filtering, IPv6 and much more.

Features and Edition Comparison

Services		Services	Free	Lite	Professional	Pro	Enterprise	Ent
SMTP	Receive incoming mail. Secure your SMTP with options including SMTP Authentication, IP transfer limits and hop count limits.
POP3	Use almost any mail client to read and reply to your mail.
IMAP4	Advanced, synchronized access to your mail, allowing easier control over your accounts from multiple locations.
WebMail	Multi-language email access from any web browser with online registration, domain administration, HTML composing, drafts, address books, SPAM filters, folder searching, signatures, auto-reaponses, and much more.
Automatic Sign-ups	Let new users sign up for an email account with WebMail. Run your own email service.
Remote Admin	Remotely access your settings, user accounts and logs via any web browser.
Outgoing Mail	Handle your own Outgoing Mail with support for MX lookup based or direct relaying delivery methods.
Static Routing	Set up mail routing rules to help integrate multiple servers and customize mail routes for particular domains.
POP3 Retrievals	Automatically download mails from other mail servers into local accounts.
Security		Security	Free	Lite	Professional	Pro	Enterprise	Ent
Secure Login Methods	Protect your login details with SASL methods such as CRAM-MD5 or CRAM-SHA1.
Anti-Hammering	Protect user login details by preventing brute force attacks.
Mail Loops / Infinite Bounce Protection	Automated protection against mail loops and infinite bounce mails.
IP Restrictions	Secure your mail services using IP access rules.
Advanced Port Control	Complete control over how ports are opened and time-out values.
Administration		Admin	Free	Lite	Professional	Pro	Enterprise	Ent
Simple User Interface	Explorer style interface for faster and easier configuration management.
Setup Wizards	Quickly and easily configure the most essential parts of your mail server to get your mail server online in minutes.
Domain Administrators	Allow users to administer their own domains through WebMail.
Message Control	Customize failure messages, warnings and service welcome messages.
INI Based File System	Manage your settings and users externally by editing the setup files.
Clustering	Improve performance and manage large numbers of users using multiple mail servers. New faster and more load bearing accounts system.
Diagnostics	Check your system for configuration problems using new solution hints to help fix them.
Catch-All Accounts	Set accounts to receive all misdirected incoming mail for a particular domain.
True Multiple Domain Support	Hierarchically arranged 'domain\group\user' accounts with added support for alias and backup domains.
Front End SMTP	Use the software to simply protect your primary mail server.
User Features		User Features	Free	Lite	Professional	Pro	Enterprise	Ent
Mailing Lists	Send bulk mails to multiple email addresses and accounts. Opt-in Mailing Lists allow users to automatically add and remove themselves.
Redirection	Redirect incoming / outgoing mails to other email addresses.
Auto-Responses	Automatically send a mail in response to new incoming mail.
Alias Addresses	Assign multiple email addresses to a single account.
Folder Hierarchies	Create nested folder hierarchies for use in IMAP4.
IPv6 Support	Run the server on both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Filtering		Filtering	Free	Lite	Professional	Pro	Enterprise	Ent
Content Filtering	Set up rules to control your mail content, run applications, send new mail and much more.
Antivirus Protection	Protect users from viruses by integrating your mail server with almost any existing antivirus product.
Real-time Black Lists (RBLs)	Further reduce SPAM with RBL online databases.
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)	Sign and verify digital signatures to authentication that mail originates from the domain owner and mail contents are not modified in transit.
Sender Policy Framework (SPF)	Detect return-path / sender address forgery and also reduce SPAM and virus mails.
Grey List	Deflect potential SPAM delivery agents with an efficient SMTP tactic.
Tarpitting	Block abusive clients and SPAM agents that try to deliver mail to non-existent addresses.
SPAM Trap	Detect and block SPAM agents with SPAM trap email addresses.
Bayesian SPAM Filter	Prevent SPAM with self learning Bayesian Filtering technology.
Advanced Features		Advanced Features	Free	Lite	Professional	Pro	Enterprise	Ent
256-bit SSL	Secure access to your mail with 256-bit SSL encryption.
ODBC	Store and control vital user information using an ODBC database. Integrate your mail server with other applications and web scripts.
LDAP	Allow users to access Shared Address Book information and allow other software to query the server for existing users.
Shared Address Books	Manage Shared Address Book information for use with WebMail and LDAP responses.
Users and Accounts		Users and Accounts	Free	Lite	Professional	Pro	Enterprise	Ent
Maximum User Accounts	The number of allowed individual user storage accounts.	5	25	100	Unlimited	No Limit
Maximum Domains	The number of allowed domains.	1	10	50	Unlimited	No Limit
		Free	$80	$200	$300
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