ZNetIndia – SmarterMail ActiveSync for Mobile Sync

ZNetIndia.com is proud to offer the entire boutique of  SmarterTools which has licensed with Microsoft ActiveSync technology, allowing for over-the-air synchronization and push email to a wide range of mobile devices, including iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, Palm devices, Palm Pre (Web OS) devices, and Nokia devices. The ActiveSync add-on is based on a yearly subscription and will be licensed in user packs.

Collaboration, Synchronization, and Over-the-air Mobile Communications
SmarterMail 6.x will continue to offer previous technologies for synchronizing calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes to desktop applications and mobile devices. Specifically, SmarterMail 6.x will include:

•    SmarterMail Sync for Windows Mobile Devices and Microsoft Outlook

•    SyncML for Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile devices , Thunderbird, and Microsoft Outlook

•    The ability to integrate with the Funambol service for push email on certain devices

•    The ability to integrate with the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) for push email

The Microsoft ActiveSync protocol requires SmarterTools to license per mailbox on a subscription model. ActiveSync will push calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, and email to devices that support ActiveSync, and SmarterTools administrators can manage which mailboxes can have this functionality.

In addition, SmarterMail 6.x will offer another method of collaboration for Microsoft Outlook 2007 and higher users. Using new two-way synchronization found in SharePoint 2007, Outlook 2007 users can simply “add” a calendar or contact/address book into Microsoft Outlook. No add-ons or products need to be installed, and all users can manage items offline in Outlook and/or on the server .

Anti-spam Enhancements

Although SmarterMail 6.x has a premium anti-spam add-on option, many customers will find the enhanced out-of-the-box anti-spam functionality of SmarterMail 6.x to be sufficient spam protection. Anti-spam enhancements planned for SmarterMail 6.x include:

•    The Open Source SpamAssasin for Windows has been removed due to limitations of the implementation

•    SmarterTools has developed a SpamAssasin Pattern Matching option that is based on SpamAssasin and integrated directly into SmarterMail. This option is highly efficient and will allow for much larger number of messages to be processed than the SpamAssasin for Windows implementation

•    DKIM is now integrated into SmarterMail

•    Support for URIBL checking is integrated into SmarterMail

•    Additional features are available for Greylisting:

o    Enable Greylisting on connections that have certain spam weight levels

o    Enable Greylisting for IP’s from certain countries

o    Enable Greylisting for IP’s based on certain ranges

•    To simplify the upgrade process to SmarterMail 6.x and for new SmarterMail installations, the Getting Started Wizard includes predefined spam configurations that take all the spam options available in SmarterMail (RBLs, SpamAssaisn, URIBL, DKIM, etc.) and associates them to spam protection performance and system resources. System administrators will now be able to choose one of these defined solutions and, as always, they can be uniquely configured and defined

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists have been completely revamped to include features usually found in third-party marketing and mailing list solutions—not in mail server products. The mailing list features and improvements will include:

•    Bounce detection has been added to all mailing list emails. Bounce detection will benefit system administrators and mailing list moderators

o    For system administrators, a mail server can get backed up from mailing lists that become stale and produce large volumes of bounced messages. Although SmarterMail provides tools such as throttling and priority spooling to prevent this from happening, eliminating as many bounced messages as possible will increase the health of the server

o    To keep mailing lists clean moderators can set bounce limits and can monitor total bounces for a mailing list and subscriber

•    SmarterMail 6.x includes a subscriber database that can be populated manually, automated through Web services, or imported through comma delimited files. The subscriber database holds all subscribers and each subscriber can be associated to multiple mailing lists

•    Custom fields can also be associated to subscribers to manage additional information

•    All emails sent through the mailing list can use mail merge variables. This allows messages to be personalized to each individual within a mailing list

•    Manage Messages page is now available to create and store messages that you may want to send to a mailing list. The ability to preview the message using subscriber information when using mail merge variables is also available. Common usage for this could be to notify certain users of a product update, which could also be personalized with their name and other unique information

•    Mailing list command messages can now be customized

•    Double opt-in feature is now available to help eliminate forged mailing list subscribers

•    Unsubscribe links can be added to mailing lists to help reduce bounced messages or limit moderator maintenance

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