Messaging and Directory Server software used around the world in the Government, Military, Aviation and Commercial sectors.

Products

Isode M-Switch Product Overview

• Rock Solid Message Switching
• High Performance
• Excellent Horizontal Scaling
• Multi-Platform GUI Management Tools
• Value Added Processing, including anti-spam, virus checking, authorization address rewriting and message archiving.

The M-Switch Internet Family (SMTP with Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus)

M-Switch SMTP is the core product on which all of the other M-Switch Internet products are based. M-Switch SMTP is a high performance SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Message Switch. Its sophisticated queue and scheduling approaches, leads to good operational characteristics under very high load and with large queues. Members of the family are:

• M-Switch SMTP is the core server on which all of the other products are based.
• M-Switch Anti-Spam is an anti-spam solution built on the core product.
• M-Switch Anti-Virus is an anti-virus solution, sold as an add-on to either M-Switch SMTP or to M-Switch Anti-Spam.

Key Benefits

Rock Solid Message Switching

M-Switch has exceptional robustness and stability, including support for failover clustering.

High Performance

As well as the basic ability to switch messages quickly, M-Switch has many design features which give good performance under high load, and gives good control of resource utilization and priority.

Excellent Horizontal Scaling

As well as being very fast, it is easy for multiple M-Switch instances to share configuration information, either by use of common tables or by use of directory based configuration.

Value Added Processing

M-Switch incorporates a number of anti-SPAM capabilities, virus checking, authorization (flexible control of which messages are allowed through), address rewriting (particularly useful to map all local address variants to a single canonical form) and message archiving.

Managing M-Switch

There are two elements of managing M-Switch, which are described separately.

1. There are a number of tools for monitoring and controlling an operational system. These are described in the M-Switch Operational Management Product Overview.
2. M-Switch provides two options for configuration. The first is by use of text tables, that may be indexed in a hash database. This is described in the product manual. The second makes use of directory, and includes graphical tools for configuring M-Switch. This is described in Directory Based Configuration of the Isode Message Servers.

Supported Platforms

M-Switch SMTP is available on Solaris, Windows, Linux and HP-UX. More details on supported platforms and versions can be found here.