This document provides detailed setting guidance for all applications and modules (email clients, calendars and address books, data synchronization) supported by MailServer.
While some of these applications are supported directly (i.e. no additional installations are needed, it is only necessary to perform specific settings), others require installation of supportive modules and extensions.
In addition to external applications, this document also addresses the WebMail interface which is used to access user data and email accounts via the most wide-spread web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari.
This guide addresses features and configuration of the following applications and interfaces:
WebMail is a comfortable web interface which can be used to maintain email and other folders saved in mailboxes on a particular server.
WebMail is available in two versions:
WebMail - full version designed for most of supported browsers (see chapter 1 WebMail).
WebMail Mini - a special, lite edition designed for unsupported browsers or for computers with slow Internet connection (see chapter 2 WebMail Mini) and for mobile devices (see chapter 3 WebMail on mobile devices).
Support for Microsoft Outlook is allowed by two extension modules which enable better exploitation of MailServer's groupware features:
Outlook Connector - an extension to MS Outlook. It allows scheduling and sharing different types of data. Thanks to this module, MS Outlook is able to work with groupware data (contacts, calendar, tasks, notices) stored in MailServer. In detail, Outlook Connector is described in chapter 5 Outlook Connector.
Synchronization Plug-in - this application allows synchronization of personal calendar, contact and notes folders as well as public folders with calendars and contacts. This application is useful especially to users of notebooks who need to work with their email, calendar and contacts offline. In detail, Synchronization Plug-in is described in chapter 6 Synchronization Plug-in.
Windows Calendar is an Microsoft Corporation's application used for management of calendars. Support for MailServer allows publishing of calendars on the server or subscription of any MailServer calendar.
MailServer supports data synchronization with mobile devices via the ActiveSync protocol. ActiveSync allows direct synchronization of data stored in email accounts with mobile devices (it is not necessary to connect to a desktop synchronization application). The ActiveSync protocol can use diverse applications in mobile devices (e.g. ActiveSync on Windows Mobile, the VersaMail email client on Palm Treo, the Mail for Exchange applications in Nokia Eseries, the RoadSync applications and others). Chapter 4 Data synchronization with mobile devices provides detailed information on which folders can be synchronized and how the synchronization should be configured on individual devices.
Microsoft Entourage is an MS Office 2004 for Mac email client which also supports management of personal information and groupware functions. The support provided by MailServer is described in detail in chapter 9 MS Entourage support.
Apple Mail is an email client developed by Apple Computer. The support provided by MailServer allows displaying of calendar and contact folders in this client (for details, see chapter 13 Support for Apple Mail 10.4).
Apple iCal is an Apple Computer's application used for management of calendars. Support for MailServer allows publishing of calendars on the server or subscription of any MailServer calendar. Calendars are created and saved in the standard iCalendar format (for details, see chapter 10 Apple iCal Support).
Apple Address Book is an application developed by Apple Computer used as a calendar (contact manager). MailServer supports this application by allowing synchronization of the local address book with contacts in MailServer (for details, refer to chapter 11 Apple Address Book Support).
iSync Connector is an extension of the Apple iSync application that enables simple synchronization of data between MailServer and the Apple iCal or the Apple Address Book application.