By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
May 27, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The British Columbia, Canada-based LinuxMagic (linuxmagic.com) has developed a considerable reputation over the years as one of the industry’s leaders in Linux support and Linux development.
The wholly owned subsidiary of the privately-held Canadian firm, Wizard IT Services, LinuxMagic was formed seven years ago to leverage the intellectual property and Linux development expertise of the company.
LinuxMagic’s long-term focused strategy involves working alongside Telcos, ISPs and SMB’s at the infrastructure level. Its ISP clients have anywhere from 500 to 13,000 users. Overall, the company delivers its technology to over 250,000 users at various ISPs.
While LinuxMagic offers a diverse portfolio of services, including thin client technologies, embedded systems, firewalls and applications in the fitness and health sector, the company is perhaps best known for its significant developments in mail servers.
Its innovations include work with high volume performance, as well as developing a variety of anti-spam tools. These mail server developments are expected to spearhead the company’s growth as it shifts to a product-focused company. Magic Mail takes these mail server innovations and packages them in a comprehensive, all-in-one product.
“Our expert Linux people know that the companies have a lot better things to do than manage a mail server on a day-to-day basis,” says Michael Peddemors, LinuxMagic’s systems developer. “A mail server should simply sit in the corner and just work.”
Catering to the ISP and business market, the Magic Mail server features high volume mailing, virus scanning, proactive user protection and a complete management interface and user interface that enables users to customize all tasks. The most important feature behind Magic Mail, however, is that it is integrated with LinuxMagic’s optimized spam and virus protection tools.
It is this attention to detail that helps simplify the otherwise tedious tasks of managing a mail server. Peddemors is quick to mention that LinuxMagic’s Magic Mail server is designed with the ISP in mind.
“Customers don’t want to have to deal with things like filtering and special rule sets,” says Peddemors. “If you ask an ISP customer what they want to do to stop spam, it’s just ‘give me a button to click to stop spam.’ The responsibility shouldn’t lie in the ISP’s hand to make sure that their users have a good experience.
“A mail server has to be designed with an ISP in mind,” he says. “And frankly, anything that starts off in the ISP industry helps the Internet as a whole.”
