So if you are seeing this you probably know that Synology has released a second version of their mail server. Synology used to have a general Mail Server and used RoundCube as the web interface for that mail server package. I was excited because I happened to be moving 5 of my email domains from CoLos to MyLos at this time. 

First thing I should mention is that I do not see this package available for the DS214 so I assume it is for Enterprise class only.

Most of the mail server functionality is the same between the previous mail server edition and the new Mail Plus Server. As an example both have the same security features such as content filtering, anti-virus and anti-spam engines. Same basic functionality too with Aliases and AutoBCC.

Of course they improved and added features as well. This main portal is better and this Mail PLUS Server is able to monitor other Mail Plus Servers. Although one of the best additions is their implementation of DLP. I spent a year of my life working on DLP and it has always been targeted at large corporations. It is normally fairly expensive so this is awesome. Especially for those out there using these on small businesses.

Also the logging dramatically improved as well as the configuration for logging. 

So far the only drawback I found is the licensing module built in. It only allows for five accounts free.

Issues

Adding SpamAssassin Rules is a manual process.

For those who don't know what SpamAssassin is... think Snort for Email. For those who don't know what Snort is... it is an Intrusion Detection System based on rules in flat (text) files. SpamAssassin operates the same way... as emails come in they run against quite a few rule files. There are currently 58 of those files which means that you have to manually upload/add each one. Boo. This was also an issue with original Mail Server but at that time I had not played with Mail Server that much.


Security Log Corruption

I actually put in a support ticket for this and am still waiting for a response. I noticed an update to Mail Plus Server today so maybe they address it but I found that if you want to clear your logs the application no longer parses the logs correctly and you begin to get date/time stamps in the Source field and Source in the Target field.

 

UPDATE: This is an older post. I meant to finish it but by the time I got back to it they had upgraded their mail products once again and I have not had the time to go through them.