InterLinx Email
A reliable, flexible Email solution
is vital to every organisation. InterLinx offers superb reliability
combined with world-class features and flexibility. InterLinx has the
innate functionality of an excellent Unix mail server along with an easy-to-use
administration system which means that non-technical staff can manage your Email
system.
InterLinx allows you to access
your Email in a number of different ways. You can leave your mail on InterLinx
and access it from anywhere using the IMAP protocol (and webmail system) or you
can download your Email to your Email software using POP3. InterLinx lets
you to use whichever of these protocols is most convenient for each of your
users and the documentation helps you decide who should be using what.
The IMAP protocol over SSL means that
an encrypted connection can exist between your Email software and your InterLinx
mailbox. This can be used on your LAN (so that, in sensitive environments,
unencrypted Email and passwords do not pass over your network) or over the
Internet.
Being able to access your InterLinx
mailbox via an encrypted link from any location on the Internet is an extremely
useful thing to be able to do. You can, for instance, have your Email open in
your favourite Email client on your home PC whilst at the same time have your
Email as part of your secretaries Email software and then access it from a PDA.
All of these connections are fully encrypted.
It is often very useful to be able to
access your InterLinx Email from anywhere; even if they do not have an
Email client. With InterLinx you simply find a web browser, enter
https://mail.yourdomain.com and login to a full-feature web-based Email system.
The connection is fully encrypted so that no-one can listen-out for your
password or your Emails.
InterLinx webmail has a very
crisp, clear interface which makes is quick and easy-to-use. This the default
mailbox view: -
This is the compose page for sending
Emails. You can see that there's an address book, support for attachments and
even a spell checker: -
The InterLinx webmail
system is available in 39 languages : Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek,
English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian,
Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian
(Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian,
Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Slovak, Romanian,
Thai, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Hebrew and
Vietnamese. Your users can choose whichever language they are most comfortable
with.
InterLinx can route Email
between sub-domains within your organisation. This can either be to other InterLinx
servers or to departmental Exchanges/Notes/GroupWise servers. It allows for the
creation of john.smith@sales.yourdomain.com departmental addresses or
kenneth.wong@beijing.yourdomain.com geographic addresses.
Forwarding allows a user to have
Email from their mailbox automatically forwarded to one or many other
recipients. These recipients can be local to the organisation or can be external
individuals. The user also has to choice of keeping any Emails in his mailbox
for himself or having them be discarded once they have been forwarded.
An auto-responder can be placed on a
user's mailbox. This is a message that is sent back to anyone sending an Email to
this user. These are often used to let people know that you are on holiday or
they can also be used to automatically acknowledge that a message has been
received. InterLinx auto-responders are intelligent and are capable
of only sending the message once to each person who sends in an Email.
Unsolicited commercial Email (or
spam) is becoming a serious problem affecting productivity and costing
organisations huge sums of money. InterLinx attempts to address some of
these issues by providing a set of features that allow you to control who you
receive Email from. You can ensure that you only allow Email from domains that
exist and then go even further to only accept mail from addresses that you can
reply to (ie. valid addresses.)
If you are having problems with a
particular organisation, you can refuse Email from individual Email addresses,
their entire domain or their mail servers.
InterLinx allows for the
creation of rules that allow Email to be processed based on who it's from, who
it's to or what the content is. You can, for instance, view all the outbound
Email or all the Email to a particular individual or you can refuse Emails with
programs attached.
Many organisations have more than one
domain name. InterLinx provides support for as many domains as you like.
It lets you have different recipients for the same address across your different
domains (ie. sales@acme-tubes.com is different to sales@acme-steel.com.)
A smart host is a machine capable of
sending and receiving Email independently of any external servers. If you send
an Email from you desktop computer, InterLinx takes it and delivers it
straight to the destination mail server. Similarly, when that person replies,
his Email arrives straight on to the InterLinx and immediately to your
desk.
This process means that you become
entirely independent of your local ISP for both incoming and outbound Email. No
matter what they do to their mail servers, InterLinx keeps working.
Leaving Email on InterLinx can
tend to consume large quantities of disk space. InterLinx allows each
user to have a disk quota. The user is only allowed to exceed their quota for
short periods after which time (or after 110% of the quota has been consumed)
InterLinx does not allow any more Email to arrive.
The administrator can see which users
are over quota and can encourage them to delete some Email. InterLinx
does not refused Email because a user is over quota, it holds them until the
quota is reduced then delivers them.
Many organisations have powerful
Email systems (like Exchange, Notes and GroupWise) and yet they also use InterLinx.
The reason for this is that InterLinx can act as a bi-directional Email
gateway between the Internet and the important internal mail server. In this
configuration InterLinx is providing an extra layer of security between
incoming Email connections from the Internet and your expensive/critical mail
server.
When an Email connection arrives from
the Internet, InterLinx completes a full SMTP receive for that message,
holds it for a moment then initiates a new SMTP delivery to the internal server.
This process means that your mail server is not directly connected to the
Internet and therefore is less vulnerable to potential security problems.
Additionally, outbound Email can be
sent via InterLinx. In this case the advantage is that InterLinx
takes care of the taxing external delivery process and leaves your server free to
continue with its assigned tasks.
InterLinx can move Email
between other InterLinx machines and correctly configured mail servers
using the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol. This means that your Email
can pass across the Internet in a strongly encrypted format not in a clear text
fashion.
The mechanism is entirely transparent
to normal Email delivery and utilises the public key cryptography that is an
innate part of InterLinx.
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