Web and FTP servers in the Mailtraq email server

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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.

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?

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.
Simple Example
Here is a very simple example website.
Create a new folder:
C:\Program Files\Mailtraq\website
within that folder \website folder create another folder called 'images'
Place an image called 'picture.gif' in the \images folder.
Placed a small HTML file in the \website folder called:
'index.htm' which contains the following text.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
Text
<img src="../images/picture.gif">
</body>
</html>
In Mailtraq create (for this purpose) a new HTTP service on Port 8085
In Options | Websites, create a 'New Site', with Properties set to:
Description - New Site
Listen on - 8085
Application
[x] Standard Website Path -
C:\Program Files\Mailtraq\website
and leave everything else at the default, for now.
Then browse to the address: http://127.0.0.1:8085/ from the Mailtraq machine itself and see that the page is displayed correctly. You should see your text and image displayed in the Browser.
Troubleshooting
Ensure the website has 'Started'.
Adjust the Windows firewall if necessary.
Add '127.0.0.1 to the Mailtraq LAN definition
Note the position of the images folder relative to the website path.

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