CollabSuite Features

Synovel CollabSuite comes with the following components.

• Integrated server with a web based administration panel
• Desktop client suite
• Web mail client

The overview page provides brief information on each of these components.
They together provide the following functionality.

Server Features

• IMAP and POP access for email
• Anti-spam and anti-virus
• Shared mail folders
• Mail forwarding, aliases and lists
• Calendar event scheduling
• Free/busy information
• Group and resource calendars
• Instant messaging server
• Global directory server
• Active Directory integration
• Automatic backups
• Web access server
• Clustering support
• Remote administration (via rich web interface)

Client features

Desktop client screenshots


• General
  • Runs on Windows and Linux
  • Integrated access to all services
  • Tabbed interface
  • Dashboard
  • Support for skins and add-ons
• E-Mail
  • Mail access via POP3, IMAP and SMTP
  • Spam and Phishing detection
  • Mail encryption and digital signing
  • Unicode support (Send,view mails in any language)
  • Advanced search, filters, tags and search folders
  • Threaded and Grouped views
  • Calendar event invitation processing (ITIP/IMIP)
  • Detect calendar events in mail text
  • RSS feeds and NNTP newsgroups to your Inbox
  • Multiple Identities
• Instant Messaging
  • Based on open standard Jabber (XMPP) protocol
  • Group chat
  • Presence information across the application (mail view, address book)
  • Chat archives
• Calendaring
  • Scheduling
  • Free/busy viewing
  • Interoperability with Outlook (or any ITIP supported clients)
  • Calendar sharing
  • Easy timezone viewer
  • Day, week and month views
  • Subscribe to web-calendars
  • Tasks and Events
  • Recurrence and alarms
• Dashboard
  • All necessary information at one place
  • Inbox/folder listing with filtering based on tags, days and read status
  • View the agenda for the day/week/month
  • Mini-calendar with agenda on hover
  • Enterprise/external RSS feeds with preview on hover
  • Multi-timezone clocks
  • Support for wide range of Google Gadgets - maps, weather and lots more

Administrative features

• Users management
  • Quota
  • Password policies
  • Mailing Options
    • Mail forwarding
    • Alias email addresses
  • Personal data - address, contact details etc
• Groups management
  • Manage privileges through Groups
  • Advanced password compliance options
  • Mailing lists
    • Create mailing list for Group
    • Add additional members to list
  • Instant messaging (IM)
    • Create IM Roster for the Group
    • Add additional members to Roster
• Clustering
  • Centrally manage a cluster of server nodes
  • Add, delete, modify nodes
  • Remotely install, configure daemons/services on the nodes
• Service management
  • Install/uninstall and run/stop services on a Node
  • Comprehensive configuration options of each service
  • Checking the health and status of services
• Software update management
  • Push updates to client installations from the server
  • Automatic updates to the server from Synovel's update server