WorldMail Server: A Must-See
By Greg Yerxa
It's finally here: QUALCOMM, the makers of the indisputable Internet e-mail champion, Eudora Pro, enters the mail-server market with Eudora WorldMail (EWM) Server. From the first mouse click to the last, EWM Server covers all the bases of the mail server game, providing a com- plete and affordable solution. Whether yours is a large
corporation considering a PC-based mail server or a small company taking the mail plunge, giving Eudora WorldMail Server a glance is a definite must.
 Designed as a companion to QUALCOMM's award-winning Eudora Pro e-mail client, EWM Server has everything you would want in a lightweigh
t-to-medium-sized mail server. Capable of handling various user loads, EWM Server has easy-to-use Web interfaces, as well as a sleek, organized Management Center. Automated mailing list management lets users ad
d and remove themselves from any list.
Other EWM Server features include support for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for directory services, individual account management and support for various directory lookup services, such as Ph (an Internet-based telephone directory).
EWM Server also uses LDAP as a management tool, keeping user and configuration information within the LDAP directory structure. If you are considering adding intranet or Internet mail services to your network, Eudora WorldMail Server should be on your list.
LDAP and Web Access
EWM Server provides extensive support for LDAP. On the leading edge of the directory services frontier (along with Netscape Communications Corp.), QUALCOMM was among the first vendors to offer mail clients with LDAP directory
services support. And thanks to its directory service improvements, EWM Server is sure to be a big hit with directory service-intensive users. EWM Server enables password access to the LDAP directory, so you can access and modify your own directory entries. In this way, administrative responsibilities are minimized and flexibility is added--users can customize their own accounts.
Additionally, EWM Server supports Web access to user accounts. You can access the mail server via the Web and configure autoresponses and passwords for your accounts. EWM Server also includes a Web interface for address queries, such as looking up an e-mail address or tracking down a lost phone number. EWM Web access will let you look up addresses via keyword searches and search through a tree-like structure for multiple domains.
For instance, EWM Server may be configured to handle e-mail from two different domains, company1.com and company2.com. A user could employ the Web search engine to parse the company1, company2 or .com
part of the tree. Utilizing a tree-based search, EWM gives you the power to manage and organize a hierarchy of e-mail domains. This capability enables great flexibility in an organization, and it is particularly usefu
l with large amounts of e-mail addresses.
Mail Standard
EWM Server is both an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server. With support for the two most popular mail standards, EWM Server is sure to be able to handle any mail client your users prefer. EWM Server supports the latest version of both POP3 and IMAP4. POP is much less flexible than IMAP, but it is more commonly supported in mail clients. All IMAP4 conventions--including synchronization with offline and mobile clients, extensive text-searching capabilities, hierarchical and shared folders, status flags and remote folder management--are supported.
WorldMail Server lets you manage all components over TCP/IP connections remotely. And it lets you manage the server from multiple systems or m
anage multiple servers simultaneously from a central management station. The management facilities provided by the server's Management Center include remote configuration, performance monitoring, fault notification, system management and message tracking.
Greg Yerxa is an assistant NetWare administrator for the Computer-Aided engineering Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He can be reached at yerxa@cae.wisc.edu.
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