Automatic Allowlisting

Automatic allow list generation from senders contacts and email message threads coupled with intelligent on-the-fly allow list detection. This ensures legitimate senders email do not get blocked by the SPAM blocker

Challenge Response

Challenge-response features to allow senders to verify and have email automatically accepted and their address allowlisted

Grey listing

Temporarily fail connections from new IP, sender and recipient sets to effectively block spam software, and BotNets. Automatically allowlists your regular senders so that no delay is experienced for legitimate communications.

Honey Pot

Dynamic Adaptive Honeypot. The Honeypot uses spam sent to chosen honeypot addresses to automatically generate adaptive intelligent agents, known as "bees". These identify and block similar spam. This provides realtime protection against new spam types, sender IPs, and specifically image spam.

Bayesian Matching

Full Bayesian statistical pattern matching providing highly accurate (better than 99%) spam blocking with minimal false-positives (emails incorrectly marked as spam). Selectable pattern matching subcategories allowing bypass of pattern matching for specific types of spam, such as 'Money Making', 'Recruitment', 'Privacy', 'Competitions' etc. Multiple thresholds for pattern matching allowing marking, blocking or automatic deletion of identified spam. Email accepted or deleted from the quarantine is used to further the Bayesian matchign for future email.

Allow listing

Easy to use allow-list management facility allowing you to maintain lists of email addresses that you never want blocked. Users each have their own personal allow-lists and senders can be automatically allowlisted if a blocked email is released from the quarantine.

SPF Checks

Full SPF (Sender Policy Framework/Sender ID) support and failure blocking. Helps prevent phishing attacks

Domain Keys Checks

Full DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) support and failure blocking. Helps prevent phishing attacks

URL Blocking

Full support for DNS-based URL checking of URLs within emails Built in SURBL support for DNS-based URL checking of URLs within emails

IP blocking

Block IP addresses from relay, sending inbound email. Whitelist IP addresses so that they are never blocked, or white list IPs for relay. Use DNS based databases to block known spam IP addresses

DNS Based Spam protection

Full support for multiple configurable DNS based spam protection databases. Dial-Up User Lists (DULs), Real time Black hole Lists (RBLs), Spamhaus SBL, XBL and Relay Spam Stoppers (RSS) are all supported! Override to allow receipt from known good sender addresses

Spam Quarantine

Spam quarantine with safe email viewer that doesn't trigger virus, worms, popups or other malicious code. The administrator can optionally allow users to review their own spam using a web-based quarantine view. Users and administrator can be automatically alerted when they have spam in the quarantine to review

Content Checks

Blocking based on strings, wildcards, word/phrase, regular expression matches in the email content or subject Configure different actions to perform for each expression matched.

Sender Blocking

Blocking based on strings, wildcards and phrase matches in the email sender address Elimination of emails with missing, undisclosed, invalid or suspect sender addresses Easy to use one-click sender blocking facility to allow direct blocks of unwanted newsletters or repeat offenders.

Country Blocking

Blocking based on country of client IP Address. This allows weighting, blocking or deletion of email originating from specified countries.

Image Analysis

Configurable automatic blocking of graphical or image-based emails. The system performs sophisticated checks on any attached or included images to identify image based spam and block it.

PDF attachment spam blocking

Hexamail automatically inspects PDF attachments for textual and image based spam and blocks if an attachment contains spam content

Automatic ZIP unpacking and content analysis

Hexamail automatically unpacks ZIP attachments, identifies malicious contained files and even reads the textual content to detect spam attachments

Header Checks

Configurable automatic blocking of emails with suspect MIME headers

NDR Spam Attack Prevention

Automatically block NDR Spam attacks by detecting NDRs from spoofed recipients, to false recipient addresses, or to nominated bad addresses.

Configurable automatic blocking of emails from suspect Mailer programs

Automatic text style and font analysis and blocking

Configurable automatic blocking of emails containing web bugs, inline framesets, popup windows etc.

Configurable automatic blocking of emails with dangerous or suspect attachments

Configurable automatic identification and blocking of emails with suspect recipient lists

Configurable automatic verification of replyto/sender

Configurable spam action options, including quarantine storage, subject line marking, forwarding, blocking and deletion

Multiplexing

Highly efficient multiplexing communications used to download from many accounts simultaneously

Flexible Schedules

Individually configurable download schedules with timetable to define when to use regular or limited download speeds

SSL Support

Supports SSL servers for both POP and IMAP including Gmail

1 Minute schedule

Download schedules as short as 1 minute

Instant IMAP Downloads

Use IMAP IDLE PUSH notifications to instantly download new email as it arrives

User accounts

User can configure their own accounts via a web interface or IIS

Download modes

Modes to download all or only new email for each user

Catch-all

Catch-all and individual accounts supported

IMAP Support

IMAP Support including configurable folders

Multi-domain catch all

Multi-domain catch-all accounts supported

Gmail support

Full Gmail Support including all hidden Gmail IMAP folders like [Gmail]/All

Rerouting

Sophisticated rerouting and readdressing options including subject, sender and recipient rerouting

Archiving and Export

Export email to files as text or MIME

Attachments

Export attachments to files

Modular

Emails are routed through all processing modules, allowing for antivirus scanning, spam blocking, routing, alerting, responders and all other Hexamail features!

Multiple ISPs

Retrieves messages from mailboxes located on any number of Internet Service Providers (ISP).

Rapid cycles

Check and download new messages as often as you require, with schedule interval resolution of 60 seconds.

Configurable action

Automatically delete, expire or retain the emails on your email account

SSL Support

SSL fully supported, allowed secure retrieval of emails from SSL compliant mailservers.

Bandwidth Limits

Configure how much bandwidth to use at various times of day

Secure login

Support secure logon with APOP (Authenticated Post Office Protocol).

Parallel downloads

Retrieves messages from more than one mailbox at the same time. This ensures that mailboxes with large volumes of email do not hold up processing of other mailboxes.

Sender rerouting

Reroute to new recipients based on the original sender address

Recipient rerouting

Reroute to new recipients based on the original subject line with wildcard matches

SMTP Forwarding

Allows forwarding of email to any other address, mailbox or corporate email server. Route email by domain to different servers or smarthosts

Built in web interface does not require IIS or Apache

Ultra compact HTML pages ensure the fastest possible interface, making the Web Mail module one of the most usable web email clients available.

SSL support

Optional bandwidth restrictions

IP address blocking and restrictions

Configurable port and host bindings to allow use in multi-NIC environments

Integrates with IIS if required.

The embedded antivirus engine features outstanding detection abilities together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses, Trojans, malware and even office document macros.

Automatic updates are another key point in virus protection, both the virus database and the program itself can be updated automatically. The updates are incremental, and only new data is downloaded, thus ensuring updates are timely and efficient.

Allow alerts to senders of infected emails

Configurable response to sender with optional blocking reason

Highly efficient multiplexing communications used to upload to many accounts simultaneously

Individually configurable IMAP accounts

Supports SSL IMAP servers

Remap IMAP folders on upload

Selectively push email based on recipient addresses

IDLE support for efficient push of multiple email to the same account

Queuing support

Full support for all configuration parameters to control every aspect of Hexamail

Full support for all stored email such as junk, errors and sent items

Full support for accounts and user data including signatures, external accounts

Access and manage all mailbox data, including management of email and folders

Access and manage contacts stored in the mailbox module

Access and manage tasks, events, notes stored in the calender module

Fully JSON compliant allowing easy access from javascript, php, java, python, .net etc.

Fully REST compliant

XML or JSON results format options

SSL support