What Are SmarterMail Enterprise and Professional?
SmarterMail Enterprise and SmarterMail Professional are standalone installations of SmarterMail, each offering a distinct set of features based on the selected edition. These editions differ from SmarterMail High Availability (HA), which provides advanced clustering and fault tolerance. While SmarterMail Enterprise can be configured for a basic failover scenario, neither Enterprise nor Professional offers the comprehensive clustering capabilities available with SmarterMail HA.
Below is an overview of the differences between the Enterprise and Professional editions, along with an explanation of SmarterMail Free.
Enterprise Edition
SmarterMail Enterprise includes all the functionality found in the Professional Edition, plus a robust suite of additional tools designed to support organization-wide communication and collaboration. When paired with the MAPI & EWS and EAS add-ons, SmarterMail Enterprise becomes a powerful, cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Exchange—ideal for businesses seeking enterprise-grade features, as well as hosting providers, ISPs, and service providers offering collaborative messaging solutions.
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 comprehensive, feature-rich mail server that delivers essential communication and collaboration tools. It supports email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes, along with sharing and collaboration capabilities across all of these features. Professional is an excellent solution for organizations that rely primarily on webmail for daily operations and supports synchronization with mobile and desktop clients using IMAP, POP, CalDAV, and CardDAV.
This edition is well suited for small businesses, teams, and individual users who need solid, reliable core collaboration tools without the advanced enterprise-level features.
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.