Mailtraq email server - Web and FTP servers

Running a website or a company wide Intranet can be the ideal solution for information sharing. If you need to provide access to information throughout your organisation, why not take advantage of the browser technology already available on your machines?

Web Server (Mailtraq Professional)

The Web Server is a standards compliant HTTP server that gives you the ability to host your own website or create an intranet web site within your organisation. Mailtraq even provides facilities to index your pages so that users can search for information.

Creating a new Web Site

Step 1. Create a new Web Service

WebMail will be running on Port 80 by default. If you wish to host a website it is most common to move webmail to a different port, say Port 8085, to free Port 80 for the new site. Find out how here ...

Otherwise, create a new web service like this: Options | Services and Add an HTTP Web Service. More information concerning the configuration of the HTTP Web Service can be found in the Program context help.
Do not click on Edit Web Sites until after clicking on the OK button first ( to activate the current service ) otherwise the Web site forms (below)
will not list the current Web Service as being active.

Step 2. Create the new site

Options | Web Sites and choose New Site. The newly created service should be listed as one of the possible services to use. If you do not want to restrict the web site to a particular web service the catch-all option of Listen on Any Web Service can be selected.

An important aspect is to configure the Web Site path to keep WebMail working. In the Application tab configure the Standard Web Site Path to the WebMail directory found under the Mailtraq installation directory, if you need to adjust this manually.

FTP Server

The Mailtraq FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server is an extremely efficient means of providing shared access to files on your Intranet. It is also an ideal support service for building web sites, as most HTML page editors can deliver pages to the server via FTP.

Mailtraq can also proxy FTP access, allowing connections to be carried to other FTP servers using a variety of setup methods. Read about configuring the FTP service here.

Looking for Mailtraq Web Administration?

The services that Users commonly require - such as password changes, autoresponder configuration, etc are available to Mailtraq Professional users via the Webmail Options pages as allowed by the Webmail Admin.

In order to access all of Mailtraq's facilities we recommend administering Mailtraq direct from the Console either locally or using the built in Remote Desktop facilities of your computer.

A basic Web Administration facility is provided for Mailtraq Essential users.