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Email and Diary

Features
  • Unlimited email addresses and diaries for each user
  • No per-user cost. At all. Ever.
  • All emails can be content filtered in and out
  • Easy to use, configurable webmail and diary means access from anywhere
  • Can be used with any standard email and calendar client
  • Easy to administer from anywhere through any web-browser

Why pay for every email address or mailbox when you can have unlimited email addresses with the NetManager? There is NO per mailbox cost unlike most competitive products. Every user in your school or business can have their own email address. Every email sent or received can be content-filtered to block for inappropriate words or unwanted attachments.

It is easy to set up aliases, redirections and mailing groups from the web-based administration pages. Similarly, it is simple to check logs to see exactly who has been emailing whom. Quotas can be applied to users' inboxes and their inboxes can be listed or searched by a number of criteria.

The NetManager links in with the rest of your network, so that users have the same username and password to access their email and diaries as they do to log in elsewhere. This makes it much easier to use, especially for younger pupils.

A simple-to-use, yet highly configurable web-based email and diary system allows your users to access their email and diaries from anywhere while keeping the data centrally so it can be easily backed up. The webmail system can be configured on a per-user or per-group basis meaning advanced features can be hidden from inexperienced users. Users can even be blocked from sending emails externally while still being able to send internally (or vice versa).

The diary system allows you to share your diaries with others, schedule meetings, get email reminders and even allows non-users to have diaries (e.g. a meeting room or a minibus). Once again, your standard username and passwords are used and the web-based diary allows you access from anywhere.

As well as the web-based access methods, standard email (IMAP4/POP3/SMTP) and diary (ICS) clients can be used. These include Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express/Entourage, Apple Mail/iCal and Mozilla Thunderbird/Calendar/Sunbird. Of course, the new range of smart phones from Apple, Sony and Nokia (amongst others) can also be used.

Email being delivered to your server can be content-filtered against a customisable list of words and word fragments. Mail that falls foul of these checks will be delivered to a designated mail administrator. You can set up different administrators for different groups of users. You can also reject mail which contains attachments of certain types (this is very useful to stop viruses). You may also add complete virus scanning of your emails. (Email filtering requires the enhanced email upgrade).

Webmail

Of particular interest to schools is the feature-packed webmail system. This allows email to be read using any tables-capable web browser. If you have mixed platforms, you will appreciate the benefit of a consistent, easy-to-use interface. The ease of use belies the wealth of sophisticated features. All the features you expect are included; multiple attachments, address books (both personal and site-wide), signatures, multiple mail folders, CC: and BCC: options, sort option, inline attachments, etc. Features can be turned on or off on a per-user or per-group basis. For example, attachments could be switched off for students, troublemakers could be blocked from sending any mail externally, address books could be switched off for younger pupils, etc. The webmail system is part of the enhanced email upgrade.
Why have a local mailserver?

Using an external email provider (e.g. at your LEA) has many problems. For example, you double your adminstration time as you need to maintain separate lists of users (and thus maintain separate passwords), you have no control over filtering (if indeed there is any at all) and you are unable to see what emails have been sent.

Most emails are sent internally (perhaps even to the person next to you!). If you have a local mailserver, these will arrive instantly; if you do not, all email needs to be sent out and then back over your Internet connection eating up precious bandwidth.

Specifications

= Optional
= Included
StandardEnhanced Email option
Protocols and clients
IMAP4
POP3
SMTP
HTTP
WebDAV (diary)
Integrated Webmail
Thunderbird
MS Outlook Express
MS Outlook 2000/2003/2007
MS Entourage
ANT Marcel
MacOS X Mail.app
Sleepycat Profimail
pine
Server features and administration
Unlimited email addresses
Aliases
Distribution groups
Mail blocking by recipient
Mail blocking by sender
Vacation messages (auto-reply)
Multiple folders per user
Web-based administration
Users synced with Active Directory
Can be backed up to USB, tape or network share
Logging of all mail in and out
Mail censorship (inbound)
Mail censorship (outbound)
Mail content blocking (inbound)
Block attachments by file type
Option for catch-all account
Mailbox quotas by user and group
Mail routing by user or group
(e.g. to work alongside Exchange)
Spam filtering
Greylisting
Spam rating
Mail blocking by recipient
Mail blocking by sender
Mail content blocking
Webmail features
N.B. Features can be switched on and off on a per-user or per-group basis
Easy-to-use interface
Skinnable user interface
Can work with other IMAP servers
Configurable censorship messages
Supports multiple folders
Attachments
Personal addressbooks
Shared addressbooks
Automatic group addressbooks
Personal signatures
User can customise
Configured on per-group or per-user basis
Can block sending internal mail
Can block sending external mail
Forwarding
Set Priority
Set Importance
Global footer
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