Microsoft's decision last year to call time on Small Business Server has created a noticeable boost in demand for 'on-premise' email server software that will play nicely with Server 2012.  Small businesses unwilling or unable to follow the Microsoft route of moving everything to the cloud have been left looking for alternative suitors to Exchange that can offer the same experience for their Outlook, Web and mobile device users. MDaemon Messaging Server is one such alternative. A staggering 18 years on from it's initial launch as one of the first Windows mail servers, we take a look at what's new in the latest and greatest version 14...

It's a bit of a niche technical one this but as I've had several reports of it recently I wanted to share this one with you in case it helps. If you're an MDaemon customer you may have started to see the following errors in the SMTP (Out) logs when trying to send email to some specific external hosts... “SSL negotiation failed*,*error code 0x80090326” What this boils down to is an issue where MDaemon and the remote SMTP server cannot find a common set of SSL ciphers that they both have available to use.