QNAP Turbo NAS Supports XDove All-in-one Mail Server

PRLog (Press Release) - Jan 25, 2009 -
QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of XDove an all-in-one feature rich mail server for its TS-109/ 209/ 409/ 509/ 639 Turbo NAS series, providing the business users the most competitive option for setting up their mail server on their Linux-embedded network attached storage. By the simple web-based QPKG software package expansion, the users can turn their Turbo NAS into a powerful mail server which provides SMTP, POP3 and IMAP services, multiple virtual domains and accounts, AJAX webmail with extended functionalities including personal folders, address book, calendar and real-time chat among users under the same mail server, schedule backup and restore mailboxes from multiple domains.

"We're delighted to bring this exciting news to our users who want to customize their QNAP NAS as their own mail server at home or office. The XDove mail server named after the open source offering XMail and Dovecot enables them to quickly set up POP3 and IMAP mail server, create mail accounts after their own domain names, and maintain all-you-can-name mail server features over the Intranet and the Internet. The installation and administration are extremely easy that even novice users can manage according to the online documentation. Besides, the XDove also supports full mail box backup and restore that gives you extra protection on the top of your RAID data redundancy," says Andy Chuo, Product Manager from QNAP. "The XDove mail server also supports webmail and instant messaging on the same interface. All you need is a web browser and the Internet access and you can talk on the web conveniently with other users anywhere," commented AdNovea(R), one of the main developers of XDove mail server.

Features of XDove on QNAP Turbo NAS include ESMTP/ESMTPS server, POP3/POP3S server, IMAP server, Finger server, Multiple virtual domains, No real system account required,  SMTP relay checking, Custom SMTP maps check, SMTP protection over spammers (IP-based and address-based), SMTP authentication (PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 POP3/SMTP and custom), SMTP ETRN command support, POP3 account synchronizer with external POP3 accounts, Account aliasing, Domain aliasing, Mailing lists, Custom mail processing…etc.

XDove can be installed optionally as an QPKG package from below:
TS-109 | TS-209 | TS-409 | TS-509 | TS-639

Detailed installation guides are available on QNAPedia Community Wiki.

About QNAP Turbo NAS
The QNAP Turbo NAS series are the high performance network-attached storage servers which support all-in-one server features such as file server, FTP server, printer server, web server, BT/ HTTP/ FTP download server, backup server, surveillance station (for network camera monitoring), etc. The latest TS-509 Pro and TS-639 Pro are the business-class NAS powered by Intel CPU, 1GB DDRII memory, dual Giga LAN, RAID 0/1/5/6/5+spare configurations, Online RAID Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration, and offers advanced functions such as iSCSI target service with Thin Provisioning, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, automatic policy-based IP blocking, instant SMS alert, and SSL secure certificate etc.

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