SmarterMail Professional is developed by SmarterTools Inc

SmarterMail Professional Edition has a number of features that prove beneficial to both Administrators and end users.

For the end user, SmarterMail offers a web-based email client that can be used to send and receive email messages. In addition, end users have the ability to keep a contact list, to customize their own content and spam filtering, they can watch email bandwidth (usage), and much more. All of SmarterMail's features are available using any browser and standard internet access (even dial-up).

Administrators have the ability to add and delete domains, to configure global or domain-specific settings. They can easily track bandwidth usage, and much more, also conveniently accessible using any browser and standard internet access. As all of the features available with SmarterMail are browser-based, neither Adminstrators nor end users are confined to one physical location when it comes to interaction with their mail server.

Groupware Features

• Personal Calendar and Task Lists
• LDAP server
• Personal Address Book

Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam Features

• Full third-party support for Declude
• Built-in Anti-Spam solution included with product
• Supports real-time OR command-line anti-virus solutions
• Automatic internal spammer detection
• Reverse DNS checks
• Bayesian filtering
• RBL listing detection (like SpamCop, SpamHaus, etc)
• SPF Record Checking
• Intelligent spam weighting and action options that allow end users to make their own decisions about spam
• Advanced domain and user content filtering

Security / Attack Prevention

• Support for SMTP 587 submission-only port
• Configurable outbound SMTP IP address
• Fully RFC compliant SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 protocols
• Configurable port settings with optional alternate SMTP
• Manual and Automatic IP blacklisting and whitelisting
• Automatic harvest attack detection and prevention
• Automatic Denial of Service detection and prevention
• Malicious script filtering in webmail
• SMTP authentication options by domain
• Configurable logging for all protocols
• SMTP usage restrictions customizable at the domain level
• Auto-Block IP addresses in Open Relay Black Lists

Administration

• Domain settings with automatic setting propagation
• User settings, configurable by domain admin
• Ability to act as a gateway, backup MX or standalone server
• Web-based administration interface
• Automation of administration through Web Services / SOAP
• Spam configuration from Web Interface
• Statistical Logging and Reporting
• Ability to Manage all Settings via one URL
• Multiple Spools
• Domain level Content Filtering Administration via Web Interface
• Current connection monitor for each protocol
• Folder auto-clean to help enforce user quotas

Web Interface (Webmail / Administration)

• RSS, RDF, and Atom feed integration
• Import and Export Contacts
• Hover Preview Message Window
• Tabbed configuration pages to increase usability
• AJAX control for viewing message list, reducing load on server and enhancing responsiveness
• Save Items as Drafts
• User and Domain Aliasing
• List server
• Configure Sub Folders
• Rich text editing
• Mailbox Spam filtering
• Multi-Lingual
• Auto Signature
• Mailbox Forwarding and Aliasing
• HTML Email Compatible
• Content Filtering Per Mailbox or Domain
• Skinning Engine
• Color Themes included by Default

System Requirements

The requirements of SmarterMail Professional Edition are minimal so SmarterMail can coexist with other applications on the same server. Below you will find the minimal requirements and a sample installation which may help you decide how much your hardware can process.

Minimum Requirements

• Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (all versions)
• RAM: 128mb
• CPU: PII 500
• DISK: 150 Megs
• IIS 4 or higher (or use the internal SmarterMail Web Server)

It is suggested customers use IIS in place of the SmarterMail Web Server. IIS provides greater security and stability options than the SmarterMail web server. The intended purpose of the SmarterMail Web Server is so that the product is fully functional even without the existence of IIS. IIS is an enterprise level web server, and SmarterMail takes advantage of many features in IIS which will provide the highest return on investment.