As 2025 comes to a close, we want to thank you for your feedback and day-to-day use of SmarterTools products. This year was a big one: over 50 releases, well over 800 release notes, and multiple very significant additions to all of our products. We’re excited to share some of the highlights you helped make possible.
SmarterMail Highlights
High Availability (HA) for Windows and Linux
In May, we officially introduced SmarterMail High Availability, delivering 24/7 mail uptime with fault-tolerant clustering across hubs, nodes, and centralized storage for virtually unlimited users and domains. Benefits of SmarterMail HA include:
- Automatic failover for both hubs and nodes
- Support for both Windows and Linux deployments
- MAPI & EWS included
- Flexible monthly licensing to match the flexibility of your environment
- Graceful migration from standalone to HA, and Windows to Linux
SmarterMail Marketplace
We also launched the SmarterMail Marketplace, a central place to manage integrations that extend what SmarterMail can do for your organization. Today, the Marketplace includes options for:
- Document collaboration and file storage (OnlyOffice, Collabora, vBoxx, OneDrive, etc.)
- Live chat and online meetings (Rocket.Chat, SmarterMail Online Meetings)
- AI-powered productivity tools and partner add-ons (ChatGPT)
- eM Client licenses and activations
- More integrations already planned for 2026
User and Administrator Improvements
Throughout 2025, we shipped multiple SmarterMail builds focused on reliability, performance, usability, and manageability. Key enhancements include:
- Delay Send and Scheduled Send for webmail users
- Keyboard shortcut support in webmail for common actions
- Primary and secondary storage options plus support for mounting secondary drives directly from SmarterMail to help scale storage more easily
- Multiple stability and reliability improvements to Online Meetings
- Improved migration and interoperability: Multiple fixes and enhancements for mailbox migrations from Exchange 2013 and other platforms
- Continual fixes and optimizations: Better protocol responsiveness, queue handling, reporting, and admin APIs, all rolled into our latest builds
SmarterMail continues to be recognized as a powerful, on-premises alternative to cloud-only email platforms, with 2025 industry coverage calling out its rich collaboration features, mobile sync, and ownership of your own infrastructure.
SmarterTrack Highlights
For customers using on-premises SmarterTrack, or our Hosted SmarterTrack service, 2025 was about giving you more insight and control over your help desk and communication workflows. Recent releases delivered:
- Automated SSL certificates for Brand host headers
- Two-Factor Authentication support for users, agents, managers, and administrators
- Survey improvements including a new single-click Star survey, a Survey Results report for clearer visibility into customer satisfaction, and HTML support for survey and result customization
- Support for PostgreSQL, bringing the total to six (6) database types supported
- A Roles Reset option so you can quickly restore default permissions for a Role
- A Database Management page that provides information on the SmarterTrack database as well as the ability to convert to a new database type
- A database conversion “Switch” button to move to your new database faster after successful tests
- File de-duplication to prevent multiple copies of files being stored across various areas
- UX refinements, including clearer indicators for sticky Community threads and improvements around voting visibility, simpler and cleaner Community moderation
SmarterStats Highlights
For SmarterStats, we expanded both platform support and reporting depth. These updates help you get cleaner, more actionable data from your web and server logs, whether you’re running on Windows or Linux.
- Two-Factor Authentication for site users and administrators
- Password Requirements added for site users and administrators
- New and updated spider detections for more accurate analytics
- Additional Linux-focused improvements, including better installer behavior, remote service compatibility, and SmarterLog path defaults
- A 404 Referrers Server Health report for quickly identifying broken links and paths
- A Site Tuning check for HTTP link usage versus HTTPS
And this is just a very, very small sampling of what we accomplished. Again, thank you all for a fantastic 2025. We have much, much more planned for 2026, so please stay tuned!
From all of us at SmarterTools: Happy holidays and here’s to everyone having a safe, happy, and healthy New Year!