Thread: IQuinox

Quinox is an enterprise communica.tion solution which includes email. calendaring, Syncbook and Web mail. Added to which, it provides spam and virus protection for
all incoming mails. Its deployment is not restricted to any OS, You can install it on Linux, Windows or Solaris. but the OS has to have Java virtual machine installed. The minimum hardware requirement is pretty decent. For example. for around 50 users. only 512 MB of memory will work on any Pentium class CPD. Of course. the HDD space depends upon the storage requirement as mails could be stored on the server or clientcan download them. For testing, we deployed this on a P4 machine with 512 MB RAM and 120 HDD.
EQuninox has different modules including [Q-Mail, AV for [Q-Mail, anti-spam for [Q-Mail. WebMail. [Q-Calendar, ADM, SyncBook. etc. The IQ Mail module provides you extensive policy and security management, and rule-based controls. [n the latest version of rQ Mail, automatic delivery notification feature from a remote postmail or IQ Mail is added. It also supports multiple domains. mail forwarding and email routing. To increase the performance, it simultaneously sends and receives mail which is different from some conventional mail servers where mails are either sent or received first.



IQuinnox suite also provides plug-ins for rQ Mail, for anti-virus and anti-spam. IQ Web is a proxy server and is another module that can be added to [Quinnox. [Q Web provides you the option to allow ordisallow messengers, that are used by your employees such as. Windows Messenger, and also helps in keeping track of files that are being downloaded. The protocols supported by IQuinnox are HTTP.FTP. SOCK and RAV It also helps in band¬width optimization. For example, it provides you the option for blocking large image files to be downloaded and caching of fre¬quently used pages.

The interesting part is that, if you have a dial-up connection. then it will dial only when there is a HTTP request by any of your authorized clients. At the security front. it provides multiple authentication mechanisms; userpass; allows users based on password authentication. EasyAuth; all are granted access. and CacheAuth which asks for username and password for only first HTTP request.

IQ Calendar is another such module of IQuinnox, which allow advanced collaborative calendaring and scheduling amongst your users. If some of your users are using MS Outlook and some other mail clients, say Thunderbird. even then they can seamlessly collaborate. This also provides you reporting service called IQ EM[S report. which generates reports on email details, block list, Internet access details. top summary, authentication failed. etc. The AM (Active Management is for [Q Mail) helps you search for specific mail or mails in file based archives folder.