SmarterMail Edition Explanation
Enterprise Edition
SmarterMail Enterprise has everything in the Professional Edition plus additional tools and features a business needs to bring an entire organization together. With the MAPI & EWS and EAS add-ons, SmarterMail Enterprise is truly a complete and affordable alternative to Microsoft Exchange. It's perfect for businesses looking for enterprise features, web hosting companies, ISPs and other service providers who want to offer a collaborative messaging platform. Some additional features that set Enterprise apart from Professional include:
- Online Meetings
- Live chat
- Failover functionality
- Ability to mark a domain as hosted externally
- LDAP support
- Active directory authentication
- Email and chat archiving for SOX, HIPAA or other regulatory requirements
- The ability to purchase and integrate one, or both, of the following licensed add-ons:
- EAS for mobile (e.g., Outlook Mobile) synchronization
- MAPI & EWS for Microsoft Outlook 2016 and above on Windows (MAPI), plus Apple desktop client synchronization (Outlook for Mac, Apple Mail) and eM Client on Windows (EWS).
SmarterMail Professional
SmarterMail Professional is a complete and feature-rich mail server. It offers the essentials: email, calendaring, contact lists, tasks and notes and the ability to share and collaborate on all of these features. It's the ideal solution for a business or organization that focuses on using primarily webmail for their day-to-day operations and includes the ability to sync mobile and desktop clients using IMAP, POP, CalDAV and CardDAV. SmarterMail Professional is a great solution for a number of small businesses or for individual users.
SmarterMail Free
SmarterMail Free contains much of the same functionality as SmarterMail Enterprise, but is limited to one domain with up to 10 users. This is to give you an opportunity to try all the features out before making a decision on what product to purchase.
SmarterMail Edition Comparison
You can also refer to the following edition comparison chart for more information about each edition.
| Features | 1Free | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Migration and Converters | |||
| Mail server converters for a wide variety of competitors | • | • | • |
| Mailbox migration for email, calendar, contacts and tasks | • | • | • |
| Automation using (Web Services/REST) | |||
| Compatible with wide variety of control panel companies | • | • | • |
| Add/edit domains and users | • | • | • |
| Add/edit calendars, tasks and notes | • | • | • |
| Add/edit RSS feeds | • | • | • |
| Retrieve user and domain statistics via Web services2 | • | • | • |
| Collaboration | |||
| Scheduling(Replace services like Harmonizely) | • | • | |
| Public Folders | • | • | • |
| CalDAV and CardDAV support | • | • | |
| Outlook Scheduling Assistant support (requires MAPI & EWS add-on) | • | • | |
| Microsoft Outlook 2007 and higher synchronization | • | • | |
| eM Client synchronization | • | • | |
| Apple Mail, Contacts, Calendar synchronization | • | • | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning synchronization | • | • | |
| Webmail reminders system | • | • | • |
| Webmail availability of attendees | • | • | • |
| Webmail personal contacts | • | • | • |
| Webmail Global Address List (GAL) | • | • | |
| Webmail personal calendars, tasks and notes | • | • | • |
| Shared calendars, contacts, tasks and notes | • | • | • |
| Delegation (Available in clients using supported protocols such as MAPI & EWS) | • | • | • |
| Chat and Online Meetings | |||
| XMPP server | • | • | |
| Chat(Audio, video, and text between individuals) | • | • | |
| Online Meetings (Audio, video, and text for groups) | • | • | |
| File upload support for Chat and Online Meetings | • | • | • |
| Search, view and print archived chats | • | • | |
| Compatible with XMPP-supported chat clients | • | • | |
| Mail Server Protocols | |||
| MAPI & EWS support (Native support for desktop clients: Microsoft Outlook, eM Client) | Add-on | ||
| EAS support (Native support for mobile clients and apps) | Add-on | ||
| SMTP | • | • | • |
| IMAP 4 and IMAP IDLE | • | • | • |
| POP3 | • | • | • |
| LDAP | • | • | |
| Message retrieval via POP and IMAP | • | • | • |
| Antispam Measures | |||
| Default and custom RBL support | • | • | • |
| Default and custom URIBL support | • | • | • |
| Message Sniffer available | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Cyren Premium Antispam available (Includes Cyren IP Reputation Management) | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Inbound and outbound spam checking | • | • | • |
| Spam quarantine (outgoing messages only) | • | • | • |
| Spam checking on POP3 message retrieval | • | • | • |
| Outgoing spammer detection and limiting | • | • | • |
| SpamAssassin-based Pattern Matching Engine | • | • | • |
| Support for distributed SpamAssassin servers (Linux or Windows) | • | • | • |
| Support for remote Rspamd servers | • | • | • |
| SPF record checking | • | • | • |
| DKIM Mail Signing | • | • | • |
| DMARC support | • | • | • |
| RBL listing detection | • | • | • |
| Reverse DNS checking | • | • | • |
| Greylisting (based on IP, sender location, spam weight, etc.) | • | • | • |
| Configurable spam weights for system, domain and users | • | • | • |
| Configurable spam headers | • | • | • |
| Trusted senders | • | • | • |
| Requiring SMTP authentication for outgoing messages | • | • | • |
| Support for Declude | • | • | • |
| Antivirus | |||
| Cyren Zero-hour Antivirus | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Out-of-the-box ClamAV | • | • | • |
| Support for third-party real-time antivirus solutions | • | • | • |
| Support for third-party command-line antivirus solutions | • | • | • |
| Support for a remote ClamAV server (Linux or Windows) | • | • | • |
| Virus quarantine (outgoing messages only) | • | • | • |
| Security/Attack Prevention | |||
| Inbound and outbound TLS | • | • | • |
| Inbound and outbound SSL | • | • | • |
| SSL/TLS Automation | • | • | • |
| Server Name Identification (SNI) | • | • | • |
| Block Authentication by Country | • | • | • |
| IDS Blocks by Class C | • | • | • |
| Active Directory Authentication (ADX) | • | • | |
| Two-Step Authentication (2FA - users and administrators) | • | • | |
| Optional alternate SMTP port | • | • | • |
| SMTP authentication by domain | • | • | • |
| Restrict administrator access via IP | • | • | • |
| Brute force detection for Webmail | • | • | • |
| Manual and automatic IP whitelisting/blacklisting | • | • | • |
| Automatic harvest attack prevention | • | • | • |
| Automatic denial of service prevention | • | • | • |
| Malicious script filtering in webmail | • | • | • |
| Throttle user and domain activity | • | • | • |
| Throttle incoming bounces to prevent saturation | • | • | • |
| Reporting | |||
| Real-time performance dashboards (traffic stats) | • | • | • |
| Basic reports (disk usage, file storage, etc.) | • | • | • |
| Advanced summary/trend reports (connections, traffic, spam, virus, etc.) | • | • | • |
| Data drill down for summary reports | • | • | • |
| Reporting statistics exposed as PerfMon counters | • | • | |
| Export reports to CSV and tab formats | • | • | • |
| Events and Notifications | |||
| Event-driven architecture | • | • | • |
| Notification profiles | • | • | • |
| Configurable system, domain and user events | • | • | • |
| Assign actions to events (e.g. command-line, notifications, etc.) | • | • | • |
| Default notification to all users when disk quotas are reached | • | • | • |
| Message Archiving | |||
| Sarbanes-Oxley compliance3 | • | • | |
| Enable message archiving by domain | • | • | |
| Messages .ZIP compressed to reduce space necessary | • | • | |
| Search, view and print archived messages | • | • | |
| Messages stored in .EML format | • | • | |
| Administration | |||
| Mark a domain as hosted externally | • | • | |
| Remote wipe of mobile devices (requires EAS add-on) | • | ||
| Support for auto-discovery | • | • | • |
| Performance counters (POP threads, POP connections, message sent/received, etc.) | • | • | • |
| Two-Step Authentication (2FA) | • | • | • |
| Failover functionality | • | ||
| Administration from a Web browser | • | • | • |
| Login Customization | • | • | • |
| Multiple system administrator accounts | • | • | • |
| Review and download log files from interface | • | • | • |
| Users can be limited to specific protocols (IMAP, POP, SMTP) | • | • | • |
| Mass propagation of settings for domains/users | • | • | • |
| Mass messaging to some or all users and domain administrators | • | • | • |
| Prioritize SMTP based on message type, domain or user | • | • | |
| Spool functionality that allows third-party integration | • | • | • |
| Configurable outbound SMTP IP addresses | • | • | • |
| Multiple spools (smart spooling) | • | • | • |
| Manage all connections | • | • | • |
| Manage current blocks | • | • | • |
| Immediate blacklisting of connections and sessions | • | • | • |
| Configurable user password strength requirements | • | • | • |
| Configurable user settings by domain | • | • | • |
| Configurable logging for all protocols | • | • | • |
| Password compliance reporting and enforcement | • | • | • |
| Folder auto-clean to enforce user quotas | • | • | • |
| Domain-wide and system-wide footers | • | • | • |
| SmarterMail search indexing | • | • | • |
| Web Interface (Webmail) | |||
| Multi-language compatible | • | • | • |
| Sender Verification Shield | • | • | • |
| Easily unsubscribe from mailing lists | • | • | • |
| Block email trackers | • | • | • |
| Optimized web-based performance | • | • | • |
| Compatible with mobile devices | • | • | • |
| Preview message attachments | • | • | • |
| New message notifications from anywhere in interface | • | • | • |
| Thumbnails for image file attachments | • | • | • |
| Download all attachments as .ZIP | • | • | • |
| Upload attachments in the background | • | • | • |
| File storage | • | • | • |
| Automatic save as draft | • | • | • |
| Click-to-map, click-to-call and click-to-mail functionality | • | • | • |
| Follow-up flagging | • | • | • |
| Linked emails and tasks | • | • | • |
| Advanced content filtering | • | • | • |
| Advanced spam filtering rules | • | • | • |
| User-level auto-clean | • | • | • |
| Support for multiple languages | • | • | • |
| Email address auto-complete similar to Microsoft Outlook | • | • | • |
| Import and export contacts | • | • | • |
| Support for user and domain aliases | • | • | • |
| Multiple signatures support | • | • | • |
| Multiple identity/SMTP support | • | • | • |
| Mailing Lists | |||
| Bounce detection | • | • | • |
| Automatic removal of subscribers on bounces | • | • | • |
| Optional double opt-in | • | • | • |
| Subscriber custom fields | • | • | • |
| Friendly unsubscribe links in messages | • | • | • |
| Common subscriber database for all mailing lists | • | • | • |
| Merge variables and custom fields into messages (mail merge) | • | • | • |
| Enable auto-generated response to mailing list commands | • | • | • |
| Enhanced mailing list compose with attachments | • | • | • |
| Customized command messages | • | • | • |
| Mail logging per subscriber | • | • | • |
| Message prioritization of mailing list | • | • | • |
| Throttling of mailing lists | • | • | • |
| Gateways | |||
| Round robin or by domain | • | • | • |
| Use as SmartHost or inbound gateway | • | • | • |
| Use as backup MX server | • | • | • |
| Use as outbound gateway | • | • | • |
| User authentication and SSL/TLS support for outbound gateways | • | • | • |
| Gateway authentication with other SmarterMail servers | • | • | • |
| Gateway can have domain exceptions | • | • | • |
| Spam checking available on gateways | • | • | • |
| Greylisting available on gateways | • | • | • |
1SmarterMail Free contains much of the same functionality as SmarterMail Enterprise, but is limited to one domain with up to 10 users. This is to give you an opportunity to try all the features out before making a decision on what product to purchase.
2For more information about using Web services with SmarterMail, see Automation with Web Services.
3Consult your compliance professional to determine applicability to your organization.
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