MailStore Gateway Help

MailStore Gateway is a free, complementary tool for our email archiving solutions MailStore Server and MailStore Service Provider Edition.

It provides SMTP and POP3 proxy functionality as well as simple mailserver functionality to receive and store emails from Microsoft Office 365 Journaling, Google G Suite, or other email servers that deliver emails to external archiving solutions via SMTP. MailStore Server and MailStore Service Provider Edition are then able to archive the emails from MailStore Gateway mailboxes

Getting Started

The following provides a walk-though of the essential steps to get the MailStore Gateway up and running.

Before You Start

Overview	Learn more about the scenarios in which MailStore Gateway provided a decent solution to common problems.
System Requirements	Before installing MailStore Gateway, ensure that the system requirements are met.
Frequently Asked Questions	Checking the FAQ might help to identify potential pitfalls or show stoppers early in the implementation process.

Installation and Setup

Installation	Irrespective of the projected scenario, it all begins with the installation of the software itself.
Basic Configuration	After successful installation some basic configuration settings should be reviewed and adjusted where needed.
Firewall Configuration	To access MailStore Gateway from remote systems, appropriate firewall rules must be set up.

Using MailStore Gateway

Logging On	MailStore Gateway comes with a web-based console for administrators to do basic configuration tasks and creating mailboxes.
Creating Mailboxes	Mailboxes on MailStore Gateway contain the emails to be archived by MailStore Server or MailStore Service Provider Edition, and thus represent the core functionality of the product.

Post Installation Tasks

Replace Self-signed SSL Certificates	For security and end user convenience, it is highly recommended to replace the self-signed SSL certificates of the public facing HTTP, IMAP, and IMAPS services by certificates signed by a trusted root certificate authority. This article provides the necessary information.
Backup and Restore	Although email typically reside in MailStore Gateway mailboxes for a rather short time, it is highly recommended to protect the content of the mailboxes, by implementing a decent backup plan, from hardware or software failure that could mean potential loss of data.
Monitoring	This article to tries to give and overview of what services and parameters to proactively monitor with a suitable monitoring solution, in order to provide users the best possible experience.
Enhancing SSL Security	The default SSL security settings on most operating systems do not meet the current security industry standards for the sake of backward compatibility. Learn more about how to enhance the SSL settings on Windows operating systems in order to provide your customer the best available security standards.