CommuniGate Pro Features

Kernel
Security
International
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)
POP and RPOP (Post Office Protocol)
HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
Mailing Lists
ACAP (Application Configuration Access Protocol)
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
Calendar
Contacts
DNR (Domain Name Resolver)
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service)
SDP (Session Description Protocol)
Web User Interface

The CommuniGate Pro is based on Internet standards (RFCs). Additionally, it has many unique capabilities that have quickly become the "must-have" features for modern industrial-strength messaging systems.

Kernel

Supported Standards
RFC3548	The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings. S. Josefsson, Ed.. July 2003.
RFC3330	Special-Use IPv4 Addresses. IANA. September 2002.
RFC2396	Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax. T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter. August 1998.
RFC2392	Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators. E. Levinson. August 1998.
RFC2387	The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type. E. Levinson. August 1998.
RFC2183	Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field. R. Troost, S. Dorner, K. Moore. August 1997.
RFC2111	Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators. E. Levinson. March 1997.
RFC2076	Common Internet Message Headers. J. Palme. February 1997.
RFC2047	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text. K. Moore. November 1996.
RFC2046	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types. N. Freed & N. Borenstein. November 1996.
RFC2045	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies. N. Freed & N. Borenstein. November 1996.
RFC2044	UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 Yergeau, F. October 1996.
RFC1894/RFC3464	An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications. K. Moore & G. Vaudreuil. January 1996.
RFC1892/RFC3462	The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages. G. Vaudreuil. January 1996.
RFC1740	MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME. P. Faltstrom, D. Crocker, E. Fair. December 1994.
RFC1741	MIME Content Type for BinHex Encoded Files. P. Faltstrom, D. Crocker, E. Fair. December 1994.
RFC1711	Classifications in E-mail Routing. J. Houttuin. October 1994.
RFC1700/STD0002	ASSIGNED NUMBERS. J. Reynolds,J. Postel. October 1994.
RFC1123	Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support R. Braden, Editor. October 1989.
RFC0822/STD0011	Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages. D.Crocker. Aug-13-1982.

Security

Supported Standards
RFC3174	US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1). D. Eastlake, P. Jones. September 2001.
RFC2831	Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism. P. Leach, C. Newman. May 2000.
RFC2633	S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification. B. Ramsdell. June 1999.
RFC2632	S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling. B. Ramsdell. June 1999.
RFC2630	Cryptographic Message Syntax. R. Housley. June 1999.
RFC2617	HTTP Authentication. Basic and Digest Access Authentication J. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart. June 1999.
RFC2595	Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP. C. Newman. June 1999.
RFC2585	Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP R. Housley, P. Hoffman. May 1999.
RFC2478	The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism. E. Baize, D. Pinkas. December 1998.
RFC2459	Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. Certificate and CRL Profile. R. Housley, W. Ford, W. Polk, D. Solo. January 1999.
RFC2315	PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax. Version 1.5 B. Kaliski. March 1998.
RFC2246	The TLS Protocol. Version 1.0 T. Dierks. C. Allen, January 1999.
RFC2222	Simple Authentication and Security Layer. J. Myers. October 1997.
RFC2195	IMAP/POP AUTHorize extension for Simple Challenge/Response. J. Klensin & others. September 1997.
RFC2078	Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 J. Linn. January 1997.
RFC2104	HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication. H. Krawczyk, M.Bellare, R.Canetti. February 1997.
RFC964	The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism. J. Linn. June 1996.
RFC1731	IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms. J. Myers. December 1994.
RFC1510	The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5) J. Kohl, C. Neuman. September 1993.
RFC1321	The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm. R. Rivest. April 1992.

International

Supported Standards
RFC3629	UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646. F. Yergeau. November 2003.
RFC2319	Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U. KOI8-U Working Group. April 1998.
RFC2278	IANA Charset Registration Procedures. N. Freed, J. Postel. January 1998.
RFC2184	MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations. N. Freed, K. Moore. August 1997.
RFC2152	UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode. D. Goldsmith. M. Davis. May 1997.
RFC1557	Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages. U. Choi. K. Chon,H. Park. December 1993.
RFC1489	Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set. A. Chernov. July 1993.
RFC1468	Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages. J. Murai, M. Crispin, E. van der Poel. June 1993.

SMTP

Supported Standards
RFC3461	SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications. K. Moore. January 2003.
RFC3207	SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security (TLS). P. Hoffman. February 2002.
RFC2920/ RFC2197	SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining. N. Freed. September 2000.
RFC2645	ON-DEMAND MAIL RELAY (ODMR) SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses R. Gellens. August 1999.
RFC2554	SMTP Service Extension for Authentication. J. Myers. March 1999.
RFC2505	Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs. G. Lindberg. February 1999.
RFC2476	Message Submission. R. Gellens, J. Klensin. December 1998.
RFC2197	SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining. N. Freed. September 1997.
RFC1985	SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting. J. De Winter. August 1996.
RFC1870	SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration. J. Klensin, N. Freed, & K. Moore. November 1995.
RFC1869	SMTP Service Extensions. J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud & D. Crocker. November 1995.
RFC1652	SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport. J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud & D. Crocker. July 1994.
RFC0974	Mail routing and the domain system. C. Partridge. Jan-01-1986.
RFC0821/STD0010/RFC2821	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. J. Postel. Aug-01-1982
Additional Features
SPF Record checking
Relay Restrictions
IP-based Blacklisting
RBL-based blacklisting
Return-Path Verification
Message format correction
Multi-channel delivery
Automated Wake-ups

IMAP

Supported Standards
RFC3691	Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) UNSELECT command. A. Melnikov, February 2004
RFC3516	IMAP4 Binary Content Extension. L. Nerenberg, April 2003
RFC3503	MDN profile for IMAP. A. Melnikov, March 2003
RFC3502	The Internet Message Action Protocol (IMAP4) MULTIAPPEND Extension. M. Crispin, March 2003
RFC3348	The Internet Message Action Protocol (IMAP4) Child Mailbox Extension. M. Gahrns, R. Cheng, July 2002
RFC2971	IMAP4 ID extension. T. Showalter, October 2000
RFC2683	IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations. B. Leiba, September 1999
RFC2595	Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP. C. Newman. June 1999.
RFC2359	IMAP4 UIDPLUS extension. J. Myers, June 1998
RFC2342	IMAP4 Namespace. M. Gahrns, C. Newman, May 1998
RFC2221	IMAP4 Login Referrals. M. Gahrns, October 1997
RFC2192	IMAP URL Scheme. C. Newman. September 1997.
RFC2180	IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice. M. Gahrns. July 1997.
RFC2177	IMAP4 IDLE command. B. Leiba. June 1997.
RFC2088	IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals. J. Myers. January 1997.
RFC2087	IMAP4 QUOTA extension. J. Myers, January 1997.
RFC2086	IMAP4 ACL extension. J. Myers, January 1997
RFC2060/RFC3501	INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1. M. Crispin. December 1996/March 2003.
RFC1731	IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms. J. Myers. December 1994.
RFC1730	INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4. M. Crispin. December 1994.
Additional Features
Controlled access to external (shared) mailboxes.
Public shared mailboxes.
Support for various Mailbox formats.

POP

Supported Standards
RFC2595	Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP. C. Newman. June 1999.
RFC2449	POP3 Extension Mechanism R. Gellens, C. Newman, L. Lundblade. November 1998.
RFC2384	POP URL Scheme R. Gellens. August 1998.
RFC1939/RFC1725/STD0053	Post Office Protocol - Version 3. J. Myers & M. Rose. May 1996.
RFC1734	POP3 AUTHentication command. J. Myers. December 1994.
Additional Features
XTND XMIT	Submitting messages via the POP protocol
LAST command
Multi-Mailboxes	Accessing all Account Mailboxes using any POP mailer
Multi-Mailboxes	Accessing Public and Shared Mailboxes using any POP mailer
Support for various Mailbox formats.
RPOP Module
Polling	Automated Mail Retrieving from Remote Accounts
Unified Domain-Wide Accounts	Automated Mail Distribution of Retrieved Mail

HTTP

Supported Standards
RFC2818	HTTP Over TLS E. Rescorla. May 2000.
RFC2617	HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication J. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart. June 1999.
RFC2388	Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data L. Masinter. August 1998.
RFC2109	HTTP State Management Mechanism D. Kristol, L. Montulli. February 1997.
RFC2068	Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1. R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee. January 1997.
Additional Features
Page Caching	Internal Cache for Web Pages and Forms

FTP

Supported Standards
RFC2389	Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol P. Hethmon, R. Elz. August 1998.
RFC2228	FTP Security Extensions M. Horowitz, S. Lunt. October 1997.
RFC959	FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP) J. Postel, J. Reynolds. October 1985.

TFTP

Supported Standards
RFC1350	THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2) K. Sollins. July 1992.

LDAP

Supported Standards
RFC2891	LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of Search Results T. Howes, M. Wahl, A. Anantha. August 2000.
RFC2849	The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification G. Good. June 2000.
RFC2830	LDAPv3: Extension for Transport Layer Security J. Hodges, D. Byrne, B. Blakley, P. Behera. May 2000.
RFC2829	Authentication Methods for LDAP M. Wahl, H. Alvestrand, J. Hodges, R. Morgan. May 2000.
RFC2820	Access Control Requirements for LDAP E. Stokes, R. Morgan, M. Wahl. May 2000.
RFC2798	Definition of the inetOrgPerson LDAP Object Class. M. Smith. April 2000.
RFC2696	LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation A. Herron, A. Anantha, T. Howes. September 1999.
RFC2587	Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. LDAPv2 Schema S. Boeyen, T. Howes, P. Richard. June 1999.
RFC2256	A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3. M. Wahl. December 1997.
RFC2255	The LDAP URL Format. T.Howes, M.Smith. December 1997.
RFC2254	The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters. T. Howes. December 1997.
RFC2253	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names. M. Wahl, S. Kille, T. Howes. December 1997.
RFC2252	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3). Attribute Syntax Declarations. M. Wahl, T.Howes, S.Kille. December 1997.
RFC2251	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3). M. Wahl, T.Howes, S.Kille. December 1997.
RFC2247	Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names. S. Kille, M. Wahl, A. Grimstad, R. Huber, S. Sataluri. January 1998.

Mailing Lists

Supported Standards
RFC2919	List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the Identification of Mailing Lists. R. Chandhok, G. Wenger. March 2001
RFC2369	The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields G. Neufeld, J. Baer. July 1998
RFC1153	Digest Message Format. F. Wancho. April 1990.
Additional Features
Index generator
Subscription Confirmation
Automated Bounce Processing

ACAP

Supported Standards
RFC2595	Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP. C. Newman. June 1999.
RFC2244	Application Configuration Access Protocol. C. Newman, J. Myers. November 1997.

SIP

Supported Standards
RFC3581	An Extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Symmetric Response Routing. J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. August 2003.
RFC3515	The SIP Refer Method. R. Sparks. April 2003.
RFC3428	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extension for Instant Messaging. B. Campbell, Ed., J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, C. Huitema, D. Gurle. December 2002.
RFC3420	Internet Media Type message/sipfrag. R. Sparks. November 2002.
RFC3372	Session Initiation Protocol for Telephones (SIP-T): Context and Architectures. A. Vemuri, J. Peterson. September 2002.
RFC3327	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extension Header Field for Registering Non-Adjacent Contacts. D. Willis, B. Hoeneisen. December 2002.
RFC3265	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-Specific Event Notification. B. Roach. June 2002.
RFC3263	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Locating SIP Servers. J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. June 2002.
RFC3262	Reliability of Provisional Responses in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. June 2002.
RFC3261	SIP: Session Initiation Protocol. J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, E. Schooler. June 2002.

Calendar

Supported Standards
RFC3283	Guide to Internet Calendaring. B. Mahoney, G. Babics, A. Taler. June 2002.
RFC2447	iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP). F. Dawson, S. Mansour, S. Silverberg. November 1998.
RFC2446	iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP). S. Silverberg, S. Mansour, F. Dawson, R. Hopson. November 1998.
RFC2445	Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar). F. Dawson, D. Stenerson. November 1998.

Contacts

Supported Standards
RFC2426	vCard MIME Directory Profile. F. Dawson, T. Howes. September 1998.
RFC2425	A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information. T. Howes, M. Smith, F. Dawson. September 1998.
Additional Features
vCard 2.1

DNR

Supported Standards
RFC2782	A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV). A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, L. Esibov. February 2000.
RFC1035	Domain names - implementation and specification. P.V.Mockapetris. Nov-01-1987.

SNMP

Supported Standards
RFC1907	Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1906	Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1905	Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1904	Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1903	Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1902	Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1212	Concise MIB Definitions. Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie. March 1991

RADIUS

Supported Standards
RFC2869	RADIUS Extensions C. Rigney, W. Willats, P. Calhoun. June 2000.
RFC2868	RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support G. Zorn, D. Leifer, A. Rubens, J. Shriver, M. Holdrege, I. Goyret. June 2000.
RFC2866	RADIUS Accounting C. Rigney. June 2000.
RFC2865	Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) C. Rigney, S. Willens, A. Rubens, W. Simpson. June 2000.
RFC2284	PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) L. Blunk, J. Vollbrecht. March 1998.
RFC1994	PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) W. Simpson. August 1996.

SDP

Supported Standards
RFC3264	An Offer/Answer Model with Session Description Protocol (SDP). J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. June 2002.
RFC2327	SDP: Session Description Protocol. M. Handley, V. Jacobson. April 1998.

WebUser Interface

Supported Standards
RFC2646	The Text/Plain Format Parameter. R. Gellens. August 1999.
RFC2557	MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML). J. Palme, A. Hopmann, N. Shelness. March 1999.
RFC2368	The mailto URL scheme. P. Hoffman, L. Masinter, J. Zawinski. July 1998.
RFC2298	An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications. R. Fajman. March 1998.
RFC1896	The text/enriched MIME Content-type. P. Resnick,A. Walker. February 1996.
RFC1844	Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent checklist. E. Huizer. August 1995.
RFC1808	Relative Uniform Resource Locators. R. Fielding. June 1995.
RFC1738	Uniform Resource Locators (URL). T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill. December 1994.