| SmarterMail Edition Comparison |
| Features |
Availability |
| Mailbox migration for email, calendar, contacts and tasks |
Yes |
| Compatible with wide variety of control panel companies |
Yes |
| Add/edit domains and users |
Yes |
| Add/edit calendars, tasks and notes |
Yes |
| Add/edit RSS feeds |
Yes |
| Retrieve user and domain statistics via Web services3 |
Yes |
| SyncML support |
Yes |
| Exchange ActiveSync support |
Yes |
| CalDAV and CardDAV support |
Yes |
| Exchange Web Services support |
Yes |
| Microsoft Outlook 2007 (2-way) synchronization |
Yes |
| Microsoft Outlook 2000 and higher synchronization |
Yes |
| Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning synchronization |
Yes |
| Webmail reminders system |
Yes |
| Webmail availability of attendees |
Yes |
| Webmail personal contacts |
Yes |
| Webmail personal calendars, tasks and notes |
Yes |
| Shared calendars, contacts, tasks and notes |
Yes |
| Instant messaging server |
Yes |
| Search, view and print archived chats |
Yes |
| Compatible with XMPP-supported chat clients |
Yes |
| SMTP |
Yes |
| IMAP4 and IMAP IDLE |
Yes |
| POP3 |
Yes |
| LDAP |
Yes |
| Message retrieval via POP and IMAP |
Yes |
| Commtouch Premium Antispam |
Yes |
| Incoming and outbound spam checking |
Yes |
| Spam quarantine (outgoing messages only) |
Yes |
| Spam checking on POP3 message retrieval |
Yes |
| Outgoing spammer detection and limiting |
Yes |
| SpamAssassin-based Pattern Matching Engine |
Yes |
| Support for distributed SpamAssassin servers (Linux or Windows) |
Yes |
| SPF record checking |
Yes |
| RBL listing detection |
Yes |
| Bayesian filtering |
Yes |
| Reverse DNS checking |
Yes |
| Greylisting (based on IP, sender location, spam weight, etc.) |
Yes |
| DomainKeys and DKIM |
Yes |
| Configurable spam weights for system, domain and users |
Yes |
| Configurable spam headers |
Yes |
| Trusted senders |
Yes |
| Requiring SMTP authentication for outgoing messages |
Yes |
| Support for Declude |
Yes |
| Commtouch Zero-hour Antivirus |
Yes |
| Out-of-the-box ClamAV |
Yes |
| Support for third-party real-time antivirus solutions |
Yes |
| Support for third-party command-line antivirus solutions |
Yes |
| Support for a remote ClamAV server (Linux or Windows) |
• |
| Virus quarantine (outgoing messages only) |
• |
| Incoming and outgoing SSL/TLS |
• |
| Active Directory Authentication (ADX) |
• |
| Optional alternate SMTP port |
• |
| SMTP authentication by domain |
• |
| Restrict administrator access via IP |
• |
| Manual and automatic IP whitelisting/blacklisting |
• |
| 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 |
• |
| 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 |
• |
| Define custom reports |
• |
| Scheduled and on-demand email reports |
• |
| Reporting statistics exposed as PerfMon counters |
• |
| Export reports to CSV and tab formats |
• |
| 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 |
• |
| Sarbanes-Oxley compliance4 |
• |
| Enable message archiving by domain |
• |
| Messages .ZIP compressed to reduce space necessary |
• |
| Search, view and print archived messages |
• |
| Messages stored in .EML format |
• |
| Administration from a Web browser |
• |
| Custom skinning |
• |
| 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 |
• |
| Multi-language compatible |
• |
| Optimized AJAX controls provide desktop application performance |
• |
| Compatible with most mobile devices and tablets (iPad, iPhone, Android, etc.) |
• |
| 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 |
• |
| Spell-check in 15 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 |
• |
| Bounce detection |
• |
| Automatic removal of subscribers on bounces |
• |
| Optional double opt-in |
• |
| Subscriber custom fields |
• |
| Unsubscribe links in messages |
• |
| Common subscriber database for all mailing lists |
• |
| Merge variables and custom fields into messages (mail merge) |
• |
| Toggle 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 |
• |
| Use as SmartHost or incoming gateway |
• |
| Use as backup MX server |
• |
| Use as outgoing gateway |
• |
| User authentication and SSL/TLS support for outgoing gateways |
• |
| Gateway authentication with other SmarterMail servers |
• |
| Gateway can have domain exceptions |
• |
| Spam checking available on gateways |
• |
| Greylisting available on gateways |
• |