SmarterMail Edition Comparison

The following edition comparison chart compares SmarterMail Enterprise, SmarterMail Professional, and SmarterMail Free. SmarterMail HA is not included as it is, for all intents and purposes, SmarterMail Enterprise with added functionality for clustering and automated failover, with the features, below, handled by both hubs and nodes.

Features	¹Free	Pro	Enterprise
Migration and Converters
Mail server migration utility for a wide variety of competitors	•	•	•
Mailbox migration for email, calendar, contacts and tasks(Where supported)	•	•	•
Automation using Web Services/REST
Integrate with a wide variety of control panel companies	•	•	•
Add/edit new and existing users	•	•	•
Add/edit new and existing domains	•	•	•
Add/edit any system settings	•	•	•
Full API-driven architecture²(Virtually all settings exposed via API)	•	•	•
Collaboration
Scheduling(Replace services like Harmonizely)	•		•
Domain Shares/Public Folders(Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, Equipment, Conference Rooms)	•	•	•
CalDAV and CardDAV support	•		•
Outlook Scheduling Assistant support (Requires MAPI & EWS add-on)	•		•
Microsoft Outlook 2016 and higher synchronization (Requires MAPI & EWS add-on)	•		•
eM Client synchronization (Requires MAPI & EWS add-on)	•		•
Apple Mail, Contacts, Calendar synchronization (Requires MAPI & EWS add-on)	•		•
Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning synchronization (Requires POP/IMAP)	•		•
Webmail reminders and notifications system	•	•	•
Webmail availability of attendees	•	•	•
Webmail Global Address List (GAL)	•		•
Webmail personal calendars, tasks and notes	•	•	•
Personal shared calendars, contacts, tasks and notes	•	•	•
Delegation (Available in clients using supported protocols such as MAPI & EWS)	•	•	•
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	•		•
SmarterMail Marketplace (Third-party integrations for cloud file storage, AI tools, document collaboration, and more)	•		•
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	•	•	•
WebDAV(CalDAV / CardDAV)	•	•	•
LDAP	•		•
Message retrieval via POP and IMAP	•	•	•
BIMI support	•	•	•
Antispam Measures
Default and custom RBL support	•	•	•
Default and custom URIBL support	•	•	•
Message Sniffer available		Add-on	Add-on
Cyren Premium Antispam available		Add-on	Add-on
Cyren IP Reputation Management available		Add-on	Add-on
Inbound and outbound spam checking	•	•	•
Spam quarantine	•	•	•
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	•	•	•
Reverse DNS checking	•	•	•
Greylisting (Based on IP, sender location, spam weight, etc.)	•	•	•
Configurable spam weights for system	•	•	•
Configurable spam headers	•	•	•
Configurable spam actions for system, domain, and users(Move to Junk, Delete, No Action)	•	•	•
Trusted senders	•	•	•
Requiring SMTP authentication for outgoing messages	•	•	•
Support for Declude	•	•	•
Move to Junk button in webmail(Moves message to Junk E-mail and blacklists sender)	•	•	•
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	•	•	•
Security/Attack Prevention
Inbound and outbound TLS	•	•	•
Inbound and outbound SSL	•	•	•
Automated SSL/TLS Certificates (Using Let's Encrypt)	•	•	•
Server Name Identification (SNI)	•	•	•
Block Authentication by Country	•	•	•
IDS Blocks by Class C	•	•	•
Active Directory Authentication	•		•
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA - users and administrators)	•		•
App password and authentication app support for 2FA (Google Authenticator, Duo, etc.)	•		•
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.)	•	•	•
OpenTelemetry support	•	•	•
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	•	•	•
Routing Rules (System-level content filtering for incoming and outgoing messages)	•	•	•
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 full server archiving or by domain	•		•
Messages .ZIP compressed to reduce space necessary	•		•
View, print, or move archived messages	•		•
Full search available	•		•
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.)	•	•	•
Failover functionality			•
Administration from a Web browser	•	•	•
Login Customization	•	•	•
Multiple system administrator accounts	•	•	•
Permissions-based administrator accounts	•	•	•
IP restrictions for 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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