Connecting to Mimecast

Connecting to Mimecast is an easy process. Each customer is provided with their own online account which offers complete real-time administrative control over all aspects of the service. This includes all MTA function such as queues and routing configurations as well as the comprehensive product modules the Mimecast offers.

Full implementation is achieved in 7 simple steps:

1. You tell us all the domains your company uses to send and receive email and the external IP addresses on your network that you deliver mail from.

2. We create an account for you and give you log-in credentials and host names to direct outbound email to.

3. You direct your outbound email to the host/s specified by setting up one or more outbound connector on your mail server or local gateway.

4. From this point outbound emails flow through your Mimecast account and the valuable process of reputation and autowhitelist creation begins.

5. Synchronizing your Active Directory with the Mimecast directory is a useful next step as it enables enhanced security for spam protection, authentication, AD group policy management, and user data replication for mail merge to create standard personalized email footers.

6. If you are a Message Warehouse customer we will set up journal connectors with you to replicate internal emails from your in-house systems into Mimecast.

7. You then change your MX records to direct your inbound emails to our data centres.

From this point your email infrastructure is protected by Mimecast. You should ensure that your firewall is set to restrict access to the specific ports accessed by Mimecast to avoid access other than from our specified hosts. We will provide guidance in this regard during the implementation process.