Category Archives: Connect Xf Email Server

I occassionally receive bounce messages for mail I never sent

The Importance of using SPF (Sender Policy Framework) for your email domain Consider the following two common situations and see if you can relate to them 1. I sent a mail but I received a bounce stating that the recipient’s … Continue reading

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Do you have a Plan B?

Live Scenario: One of our large customer, whose mail servers are hosted on a VMWare infrastructure, recently performed some maintenance on their shared storage infrastructure and on the VMWare platform. After this activity, It was found that except for the … Continue reading

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How our team used Live group chat collaboration to resolve a server outage

Live scenario: Mithi’s enterprise messaging servers are automatically monitored by external probes, who scan the servers at close intervals for a response on all protocols. For any outage, the probes send our sms alerts and also call up on designated … Continue reading

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Internet Service Providers blocking SMTP port 25

Live Scenario 1: One of our customers complained that their remote outgoing mail queue is rising rapidly. We found that the Internet link’s capacity to relay mail has suddenly dropped. So while mails were going, but very slowly and hence … Continue reading

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POP service is fast, then why is mail access so slow?

Live scenario: Many a times, we get trouble tickets, announcing that the Mithi mail server has slowed down and is exhibiting high CPU utilisation and load. The server would also exhibit a high I/O wait, which in turn causes higher … Continue reading

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Instant Messaging: Accelerating Collaboration in Enterprises

Over the last few years, instant messaging (IM) is gaining popularity at work for it’s ability to get co-workers’ attention, rapidly resolve issues/questions, save telecommunications costs and reduce face to face meetings. Most enterprise use of IM starts with individual … Continue reading

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Go Green with Mithi Connect Xf – Reduce Workload on Mithi Connect Servers and Lower Storage Costs

Problem: Ever-increasing volumes of email and the mass of old emails force IT managers to seek ways to efficiently manage storage resources. Email storage gets depleted over time. Use of mailbox quotas hardly remedies the problem. The restriction works for … Continue reading

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Reducing Cost of Managing and Monitoring On Premise Connect Xf Email Server

Microsoft states that dollars spent on Services is as much as six times the cost of the original licenses. While that’s great news for the companies providing these services it’s not such good news for customers who have to bear … Continue reading

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Alternative to accessing a Single mailbox by multiple users

Many Email solutions like MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, etc provide a feature where multiple users can access the same mailbox. Each of these users can login with their own credentials, see a common mailbox, and can read/ reply to any … Continue reading

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