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CAWIS MDM is a mission critical application. It is used to send aviation safety information on a national and international basis. Problems distributing the emails can generate an aviation safety incident.

A single emailing can contain up to 20,000+ emails.MDM stands for “Mail Distribution Module”.

The Mail Distribution Module (MDM) is used to distribute PDF versions of Airworthiness Directives (AD), Civil Aviation Safety Alerts (CASA) or Aviation Safety Letters (LETTER) of interest to 5008 Owners and Canadian and Foreign Special Interest Group (SIGs). 

 5008 Owners can potentially receive the information by email, fax or by Canada Post.   SIGs only receive the information by email.   If the email to a SIG fails Transport Canada makes no further attempt to send the information to that SIG, and neither does the MDM feature.

Mailbox management

MDM does the following steps to manage Mailbox size as the Mailbox cannot exceed its 2 gig size limit otherwise replies (bounce-back messages) will be lost:

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