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Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Add-on
The addition of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync as an optional SmarterMail add-on for brings the speed of the leading over-the-air synchronization technology to SmarterMail customers. Exchange ActiveSync reduces sync time, extends the battery life of mobile devices, and delivers better syncing for collaboration features than any other platform.
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Enhanced Outlook Synchronization
SmarterMail 6.x introduces two-way syncing with Microsoft Outlook 2007 without the use of any third party tools, making managing and maintaining calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes faster and more efficient for users.
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Hassle-free Mailbox Migration
SmarterMail 6.x makes mailbox migration simple with open source converters and a built-in mail server conversion tool. The built-in mailbox migration feature gives users the ability to import email and collaboration items from most email platforms and services—making it easier and more cost-effective to acquire new customers and manage migrations.
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SpamAssassin-based Pattern Matching Engine
Based on SpamAssassin technology, this a powerful pattern matching engine can process substantially higher volumes of email per day than previous versions of SmarterMail without the need for a a distributed antispam server.
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Improved Message Archiving
Email archiving and retrieval is taken to a new level in SmarterMail 6.x. The new archiving section allows for the more effective search and retrieval of archived email. Businesses required to save emails due to legal and regulatory requirements will find SmarterMail an ideal solution, for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and other regulatory requirements.
SmarterMail 6.x strengthens out-of-the-box spam protection with additional antispam measures, including DKIM spam check, additional greylisting rules, POP message filtering. These additions help to ensure that SmarterMail is the leader in out-of-the-box email spam protection—blocking 97% of spam.
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Commtouch Premium Antispam Add-on
When used in conjunction with SmarterMail’s out-of-the-box antispam features, the optional Commtouch Premium Antispam add-on delivers upwards of 99.5% spam protection. Commtouch technology complements SmarterMail’s built-in antispam features by adding real-time email transmission pattern recognition.
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Commtouch Zero-Hour Antivirus Add-on
The Commtouch Zero-hour Antivirus add-on identifies viruses based on their unique distribution patterns and provides a complementary shield to conventional antivirus technology, protecting in the earliest moments of malware outbreaks and continuing protection as each new variant emerges.
SmarterMail 6.x greatly enhances mailing list functionality with advanced features normally only found in stand-alone mass mailing applications. The additions of bounce detection with automatic removal, double opt-in, subscriber custom fields, mail merge, logging per subscriber, message prioritization, and much more, not only provide tools to successfully manage large mailing lists, but when used in conjunction with the throttling and prioritization features it can help protect the server from being saturated.
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Manage All Email Accounts from One Interface
With the combination of POP importing, IMAP importing, SMTP identities, and multiple signatures—Webmail users can now effectively use one SmarterMail account to manage all of their email accounts. Users can reply using multiple SMTP identities with ease and have immediate access to primary SmarterMail calendars and contacts—allowing full access to all of SmarterMail’s collaboration tools, synchronization features, and more from one Web interface.
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Enhanced Webmail and Administration Interface
Dozens of new features have been added to SmarterMail 6.x to improve the user and administrator experience, including Silverlight reports and charts, new message attachment and attachment thumbnail views, and user-definable columns for contacts, calendars, and tasks.
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Over-the-air Synchronization with BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
SyncML technology available to facilitate over-the-air synchronization of Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes with a
variety of mobile devices. Not all functionality is available on all devices.
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Greatly Expanded and Enhanced Web Services
SmarterMail has always been at the forefront of automation through Web services (SOAP/API). SmarterMail 5.x adds dozens
of additional user and administrative operations that can be accessed via control panels and other external applications.
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New Optimized Interface Design
SmarterMail 5.x introduces the entirely new STInterfaceFramework, a fully skinnable Web interface with Drag and Drop,
right mouse click support, and optimized AJAX controls bringing desktop application performance to the Web.
SmarterMail 5.x delivers up to 97% spam protection out-of-the-box. SmarterMail 5.x antispam features now allow
users to customize the level of protection with flexible configurations on multiple antispam processes.
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Prioritization of Domains and Messages
SmarterMail 5.x gives system administrators the ability to prioritize domains and messages in the spool,
allowing administrators to ensure critical emails are delivered before non-critical messages or messages with
a large mailing list. This feature also gives system administrators the ability to create automated actions
based upon that priority.
New calendar/availability views, an enhanced reminder system, and iCalendar specifications have been added to
the calendaring functions to improve usability and appointment notification.
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Mass Messaging for Administrators
SmarterMail 5.x gives System Administrators the opportunity to send mass emails and reminders to selected
groups alerting them of upcoming changes or news.
SmarterMail 5.x is one of the first Mail Servers designed to be Event-driven. There are now a virtually
infinite number of Event configurations that can be created and used to provide notifications and—more
importantly—cause specific pre-defined actions to be implemented. There is almost no end to the number
and types of Events that can be defined.
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All New Reminders System
Reminders and Notifications now have distinctive pop-up displays, available audible chimes, and effective
management features.
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All New Notification Profiles
Individual users can be informed via SMS text message or email to any address when a specific email arrives
in their mailbox, an appointment reminder has occurred, their mailbox is getting full, and much more.
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Advanced Reporting System
SmarterMail 5.x introduces the new STReportingFramework which uses real-time mail server statistics, historical
summary reporting, and detailed trend analysis to create one of the most flexible and robust reporting capabilities
on the market.
Throttling has been added to allow system administrators to limit the number of messages, amount of bandwidth,
and/or the number of bounced messages that will be allowed to or from a domain, user, or mailing list in a given
amount of time to prevent system abuse. Actions can be automated based upon the throttling parameters to prevent
abuse in real-time.
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Advanced Message Composition
Composing and sending a message is easier and more efficient with multiple composition pop-ups, background uploading
of attachments, additional editing and formatting options, and much more.
The new SmarterMail 5.x interface adds a new Security Section to support the existing security features and add even
more protections. With the introduction of these new features, the security scheme will often be referred to as the
"DETECT, PREVENT, and LIMIT" foundation.
SmarterMail 5.x adds numerous general performance enhancements, interface advances, and changes to default settings to
help users and administrators use SmarterMail more effectively.
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SmarterMail Sync for SmartPhones
SmarterMail Enterprise Edition now includes SmarterMail Sync for SmartPhones running Windows Mobile
5 operating system. Synchronize all your contacts, appointments, and tasks via your SmartPhone. SmarterMail
Sync for SmartPhones is located within the SmarterMail interface under the Settings menu.
This feature is an extension of the IMAP protocol that allows SmarterMail to send status
updates in real-time. This grants users the ability to maintain a connection with
the mail server via any client that supports IMAP IDLE (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird,
third-party appilcations that support mobile devices), in turn, instantly informing them of any
changes or updates.
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Supports SSL and TLS Connections
SmarterMail 4.x offers SSL and TLS connections for all protocols. This feature allows
SmarterMail to accept incomming SMTP, POP3, or IMAP sessions.
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Specify User Password Strengths
System Administrators can require minimum password strengths for all users, which can help
increase the security of your box(es). Letter casing, numbers, symbols, and length are
all fully customizable.
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New Enhancements and .Net 2.0 Equals Faster Servers
SmarterMail 4.x enhances the performance of all back-end services, web interface
code, and supports Microsoft .Net 2.0. This better performance and more efficient
server operation.
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Robust Anti-Spam Improvements
Greylisting, SpamAssassin, and additional spam checks on incoming mail have been
added to the existing anti-spam measures of previous versions at no additional charge.
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Enhanced Anti-Virus Protection
SmarterMail 4.x includes ClamAV right out of the box for superior, open-source virus
protection.
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Now Scan Outgoing Mail for Spam
Avoid blacklisting of your domains. Use the new SmarterMail 4.x outgoing spam checks
protect your network from abuse.
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Real-time Dashboard and Email Reports
SmarterMail 4.x adds new administrative and email reports and features; including
a Web-based dashboard displaying real-time server performance.
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Improve Performance with Gateways
Using SmarterMail gateways (available with the Enterprise Edition) allows for enhanced
load balancing features. Version 4.x also adds round-robin distribution to 3rd-party
gateways.
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Smart Gateways and Improved Load Balancing
New smart gateways allow mail servers to send through the entire array of outbound
gateway servers to better balance loads.
Every message in your SmarterMail inbox will now have a corresponding status icon. These
icons will inform the user of what actions have been taken for each individual email. The
types of status icons include: read, unread, forwarded, and replied.
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New Intuitive Webmail and Admin Interfaces
The Webmail and System Administrator interfaces have been re-designed with a renewed
focus on reduced load speed and better usability. New features like a preview pane,
lower-bandwidth component controls, custom skins, and an intuitive Today
page.
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Synchronize Personal and Shared Outlook Features
Version 4.x includes the new release of SmarterMail Sync for Outlook TM.
Now synchronize shared calendars, contacts, tasks, and now notes; including optional
automatic synchronization on startup and exit of Outlook TM(Enterprise
Edition only).
Allow users to grab email from external POP accounts and pull them into SmarterMail
accounts.
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New Calendar, Contacts, Task, and Event Functionality/Sharing
SmartMail 3.x adds category support for calendars, contacts, tasks, and events.
Calendaring gets "Invite" functions and event notification. The Enterprise Edition
also lets users create User Groups and assign access to shared resources to streamline
collaboration.
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MS Outlook Synchronization
SmarterMail Sync support allows easy synchronization with Microsoft Outlook.
Never miss another headline with the new RSS, RDF, and ATOM news feed reader added
to the webmail interface.
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LDAP, Active Directory Authentication, and Global Address List
LDAP support allows SmarterMail to utilize a new Global Address List (GAL) and integrates
with Microsoft Outlook in the Enterprise Edition. Active Directory Authentication
is available in all versions.
Time Zones can be set on a domain and/or user basis.
Message archiving at the system and/or domain level (Enterprise Edition Only) and
is an important tool for company compliance and accountability (Sarbanes-Oxley,
etc.).
Modern AJAX message listing and folder list updating within the webmail interface;
including a “hover” preview option.
Users can now automatically filter and sort incoming mail using Plus Addresses.
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Anti-spam/Anti-virus Upgrades
SmarterMail 3.x adds the ability to run spam checks at the SMTP level, has the global
option to skip spam checks for whitelisted domains, includes enhanced content filtering,
incorporates maximum hop detection, and has the ability to add multiple denial of
service detection rules (per protocol) for flexibility.
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Automatic Propagation of Domain Settings
SmarterMail 3.x adds a new propagation utility page to automatically set all domains
with administrator-chosen default settings.
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Performance Enhancements
SmarterMail 3.x adds numerous general performance enhancements and changes to help
SmarterMail run more effectively including support for HTML auto-responder messages,
sidebar update notifications, new administrative policy options, and more.
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Upgraded Spam Protections
SmarterMail 2.x adds intuitive spam filtering, advanced content filtering on the
user and domain level, SPF filters, and new Bayesian filter support.
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New Ergonomic User Interface and Functions
Includes an updated interface with full HTML/Plain text modes, auto-cleaning of
Junk and Deleted folders, and multi-language functionality with spell-checking.
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Enhanced Administrative Features
Additional Statistics added to monitor server performance, live server diagnostics
in the sidebar, automatic update notification service, SmartHosting, domain forwarding,
and more.
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Supports Multiple Encoding Types
User-level control in My Settings menu for additional encoding types.