Mirapoint Web Mail
Mirapoint Overview
The Mirapoint message server provides exceptionally high performance. Users can access their email via webmail from any desktop that has a browser, or via any standards based email client including Outlook. For the most up-to-date information on Mirapoint, check the ITS status page at http://its.binghamton.edu/email/mirapoint.
The Mirapoint webmail application interface is easy to understand and use. Its enhanced functionality allows you to:
- Filter out junk mail Spell check mail
- Create an address book
- Search messages
- Access multiple (up to 10) external POP accounts
- Forward mail
- Create vacation messages
NOTE: Mirapoint requires a POD password to log in. You can check or reset your POD password at http://busi.binghamton.edu. If you need a POD password or need other assistance with your password, visit the ITS Help Desk (located on the first floor of the Information Technology Services building.) Password assistance normally requires presentation of your BU ID card.
Improved Spam Detection and Rejection
Mirapoint is capable of immediately rejecting unwanted email messages before they’re filtered using technology called MailHurdle in its RazorGate email security appliances. MailHurdle is capable of stopping 60 percent or more of spam before it’s even delivered. This technology by itself will not necessarily produce better spam-filtering results, but it reduces the number of messages the filters have to handle, lightens the load of internal traffic on the network, and increases message-delivery speeds.
MailHurdle employs a variety of SMTP protocol-level techniques to verify both the recipient and sender of messages. To verify the recipient, the RazorGate uses a directory-based lookup of the recipient address and rejects messages not addressed to real BU users. This defends against spammers’ directory-harvest attacks as well as bulk email sent to random lists of users.
To verify the sender, MailHurdle looks at the originating IP address and the From and To addresses in the message. If a particular recipient hasn’t previously received a message from the sender’s IP address, MailHurdle sends a temporary failure message back to the originating mail server using a standard SMTP failure code. If the originating mail server is a bulk email system, it will generally not resend the message. Viruses using raw SMTP to send messages will also not retry. If the message is legitimate, the originating mail server will quickly retry sending the message, at which point it’s allowed through the gateway.
Mirapoint's RazorGate appliance is a very effective anti-spam solution, and with MailHurdle technology, it brings the added benefit of greatly reducing the load in high email volumes by stopping a significant number of unwanted messages from ever reaching the filter.
Mirapoint Applications Mail/WebMail:
Use to send and receive email from this account as well as any added POP accounts. Also, set up mail filters to keep out spam; use the Allowed Senders list and Allowed Mailing Lists to ensure that mail from certain senders is always delivered to you; create mail folders and sub-folders to organize mail you want to keep.
Contacts: Use to maintain a database of email contacts. Also, create contact groups, categorize contacts, access other contact databases, and send mail.
NOTE: Mirapoint has Calendar and Task features which are not currently available to BU users.