hMailServer Powered by GlobalSolutions

Overview

hMailServer is a free, open source, e-mail server for Microsoft Windows. Any webmail system which supports IMAP, SMTP and POP3 can be used with hMailServer. It has flexible score- based spam protection and can attach to your virus scanner to scan all incoming and outgoing email. hMailServer comes with a set of built-in anti spam features such as SPF, SURBL. We have made sure the image is hardened so it secured from all existing vulnerabilities.

How to Access our AMIs from AWS Marketplace

• Subscribe to our AMI from AWS market place.
• Login to the server using you pem generated password.
  • From the AWS console select your AMI and hit the connect option in the top
  • This will pop a window to select your pem file.
  • Select the pem file and hit decrypt to get your password.
  • Hit the download button to get your rdp file and will be able to login using the user name - Administartor and password generated from previous step.

For more information please refer to this url - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/connecting_to_windows_instance.html

Installation Location

phpMyAdmin and hMailServer Login

It is advisable to change the password after logging into phpMyadmin.

Getting Started

SMTP

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP is used when email is delivered from an email client, such as Outlook Express, to an email server or when email is delivered from one email server to another. The port may be 25 or 587 depending on your SMTP.

IMAP

IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It, too, is a protocol that an email client can use to download email from an email server. The IMAP protocol is designed to let users keep their email on the server. IMAP requires more disk space on the server and more CPU resources than POP3, as all emails are stored on the server. IMAP normally uses port 143.

Accessing the Application

In order to use the application in an full extent one must have an existing domain details or they have to create a domain. Please create a domain of your own in any of the sites, there is a cost to create these domain it ranges from 99 cents (with discounts in sites like "1 and 1") to $15 in other vendors who help you to create one.

Once you create a domain the next steps is to set the mx value for that domain in the DNS settings. The vendor who provided the domain will give you access to the DNS settings through their console. Once you get this access set the public DNS name of instance where you are running the Hmail server in the mx value and set the priority to 10.

Steps to send and receive emails

1. Please open the "hMailAdmin.exe" application by going to the following location "C:\Program Files (x86)\hMailServer\Bin ", this will pop up the connection window. You can also achieve the same by running thehmailadmin shortcut in the desktop.
2. Please select the localhost to connect to the hmail admin console/server and provide "your instance ID" (you can get this from ec2 console)as the password. Note - If you are not able to login with instance ID as password please restart the hmailserver by going to Administrative Tools ->; services and try again.If you still have problem, go to c:\gs\utils, open a command line and run the run.bat in this folder. Restart the Hmailserver and you should be good to connect to the hmail server
3. Right click on the domain in the left panel and create a new domain.
4. Once you create a domain the next step is to create users under them. As you expand the domain you will see an "account" under domain.
   • a. Selecting the account will allow you to add users to the account.
   • b. Make sure to give a password and increase the size of the disk space to 100 MB.
   • c. This size sets the amount of data that a user can use. If the user exceeds this limit he/she will not receive email any further.

When you send an email the email will be sent to the Hmail server that is running in this instance which will talk to the other exchange servers using the SMTP protocol.

• a. For example if you are sending email to an account in Yahoo the server will find the DNS for the Yahoo domain server and will find the mx value for that yahoo domain and will communicate with the email server to send the email to that account.
• b. The same way if you send an email from your Yahoo or Gmail or any other account to the account that you created in the Hmail server in the ec2 instance the first step will be for those other accounts to find the DNS for the domain that you have set up and its corresponding MX value to communicate with the Hmail server running in your ec2 instance.
• c. Once communicated it will send the email to the Hmailserver using SMTP protocol and when you open your inbox from the browser the client will use IMAP protocol to bring it to the client you can access.

Support

Please contact us at support@theglobalsolutions.net for any questions on this offering in AWS Marketplace.