KumoMTA

KumoMTA

Kumo Corp
MDaemon Email Server

MDaemon Email Server

MDaemon Technologies
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About

KumoMTA is an Open-Source, enterprise-grade email message transfer agent (MTA) software for sending high-volume, business-critical emails. KumoMTA is typically chosen by high-volume email users looking to replace PowerMTA, Momentum, or traditional Open Source MTAs. KumoMTA offers high-performance message relay to the tune of millions of messages per hour per server, combined with extreme flexibility and configurability through its use of a Lua scripting engine for configuration and message management.

About

The MDaemon Email Server was one of the first Microsoft Exchange alternatives offered to businesses around the world. It has been developed with the ongoing input from IT professionals seeking an easy-to-use, reliable, and secure mail server that does not require expensive administration or impose high per-user costs. It simplifies messaging and collaboration with a focus on security and privacy, an intuitive, user-friendly web mail design and by offering administrators Mobile Device Management, Business Instant Messaging, Document Sharing, and other enterprise-class features that can be managed with minimal support. MDaemon Email Server supports IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 protocols, and features include: integrated webmail with IM and document sharing, Outlook support, compromised password alerts, color-coded log files for quick and easy troubleshooting, customizable email policy setting to fit your unique network environment, Mobile Device Management, Account Hijack Detection, and more.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

KumoMTA is best suited for enterprises, email service providers, MailOps teams, high-volume senders, infrastructure teams, deliverability teams, SaaS companies, marketing platforms, and organizations that need open source email infrastructure, MTA software, high-volume message delivery, deployment control, cost predictability, migration support, documentation, and transparent email operations

Audience

Businesses looking for a reliable email server

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0
KumoMTA is Open-Source and free to use, those interested in support and services can contact us.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$360 per year
On-premise cost begins at $360/year, while hosted MDaemon Email starts at $25/month/5 users.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 3.8 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.9 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.7 / 5
design 4.6 / 5
support 4.4 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • KumoMTA has easily the best documentation that I have ever read. It is super customizable because of the Lua scripting and if you ever get stuck, there's a great community that will help you out. Features like webhooks are a blessing and once everything works, it works amazingly well.
  • High performance, extremely stable, and open-source, giving enterprises more options.I replaced Momentum with KumoMTA, which saved me a significant amount of costs. Moreover, Momentum’s support has been getting worse.
  • There's a lot to like with Kumo: easy to spin up instances, easy to scale instances, lightweight, great webhook/event support, and their community is kind so any questions I have get answered quickly in their Discord.
  • I love how quick and easy it is to setup KumoMTA. It gives you total control over every part of the message delivery which helps you to transform and even fix messages that don’t follow RFC standards. The configuration system is easy to use. It's extremely flexible, thanks to its Lua scripting module. Well documented, scales beautiful. The webhook (logging) system is also great which makes collecting analytics and statistics really simple. I really appreciate the level of personal support that I receive and I am truly grateful for it. In the past, I had a small feature request which was quickly incorporated into the software in under 24 hours.

Cons

  • It's a lot to take in, knowledge about email is mandatory. Examples in docs could be improved.
  • Configuration items lack real, effective examples and guidance on how to better implement certain features, methods, and so on. Out-of-the-box configurations are limited; this part could actually be developed into a marketplace to enable community participation in co-creation.
  • There's no UI/frontend so it's very much for devs. This is fine because we built our own MTA monitoring software.
  • There's a bit of learning curve at the start, especially for those new to Lua, but this is true for every software/MTA. Apart from that, my experience with KumoMTA has been smooth sailing.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • No doubt it is simple to handle plus a tons of SPAM/Security controlling options. Over it is a good quality email server, providing great features and customer support as we are using for the past 20 yrs.
  • The system is easy and intuitive, it gives system administrator completely visibility and control.
  • We started using Mdaemon email in 2007. True to their words, Mdaemon installation was problem-free and flawless. The help desk reached out to us during installation for support. But, we did not need any support as installation was simple and straight forward. It was easy to install, configure and use even for a non technical person.
  • We started to use MDeamon software on our own server back with version 9 many years ago. Over the years they have made so many improvements to not only the email features, adding docs and file sharing to an entire domain or just one single user. Among other great improvements to the web UI such as layout and ease of use, and also greatly improving the security gateway for spam. Now we have migrated to the hosted platform, same great software, and support without the costly upgrading of new servers, OS versions, and hardware costs.
  • The password check, complex password option, and robust a/v engines are just a few of the features we love about MDaemon. They line up well with our ongoing security initiatives.

Cons

  • Cant integrate with SSO and no appliance based. There is nothin much to dislike about this software. AltN has implemented features over time that are important to our requirements."
  • The system not 100% exchange compatible, may affect some demanding clients user experience.
  • Sometimes the system is memory hungry. This can cause the system to slow.
  • In the past, older versions were some what of a pain to migrate to a newer version of the software. But they have made great efforts to make this transition easier for the network admins over the years. The only other feature i would say is lacking is a way for a user to create or download a backup of their entire email account, settings, and files.
  • We were disappointed when the built in encryption for webmail was discontinued.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Kumo Corp
Founded: 2023
United States
kumomta.com

Company Information

MDaemon Technologies
Founded: 1996
United States
mdaemon.com/pages/mdaemon-email-server

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Categories

Categories

Email Management Features

Data Recovery
Email Archiving
Email Deletion
Email Discovery
Email Monitoring
Email Recall
Queue Manager
Response Management
Routing
Shared Inboxes
Signature Management
Spam Blocker
Whitelisting / Blacklisting

Integrations

MailRoute
Ongage
OpenText MailStore Server Archive
Postmastery
Prometheus
RecoveryTools Email Backup Wizard
SecurityGateway™ for Email Servers
Seequre
TRANSEND
eM Client

Integrations

MailRoute
Ongage
OpenText MailStore Server Archive
Postmastery
Prometheus
RecoveryTools Email Backup Wizard
SecurityGateway™ for Email Servers
Seequre
TRANSEND
eM Client
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