Zarafa Outlook Sharing

Zarafa makes it easy to share Outlook information through Outlook or through the Webaccess. This solution is installable on an existing Linux server (see versions ). Many system administrators view Zarafa as an alternative for Exchange. Below you will find information about functionalities in mail, calendar, contacts and tasks. On the features is information about meeting requests, access from outside the internal network and storage in the database.

Appointment requests Sending and accepting of appointment requests. Accept through a special button in the message and the appointment will be automatically incorporated in the calendar. An appointment with 5 persons is easily planned. It can spare you alot of excessive phonecalls.

Free/busy information Many colleagues' appointment information in one overview. You may directly view where to create a new appointment in overly planned calendars.

Webaccess Even if you don't have your own computer at hand, you can always gain access to all of your Outlook information. The information will be presented in the familiar Outlook lay-out. The webaccess offers you all the presented functionalities.

Unique in Zarafa is that the information shown is real-time requested. There is no separate synchronisation between the client and the server. All your changes in the webaccess can directly be viewed in Outlook: 'read/unread' status, subfolders and flags are visible. When you sent a mail from your computer at home, it still is visible in the same 'Sent Items' folder in Outlook.

Outlook from outside the network You can login from your computer at home to the Zarafa server through a safe and fast solution. You can work like you're at work. This functionality can be used with Outlook2000, OutlookXP and Outlook2003.

PDA support You can synchronize your Outlook information with your PDA. This way, you'll have your information always present, no matter where you are. Zarafa support ActiveSync and Hotsync. Therefor, you can use your iPaq or Palm handheld.

Offline Synchronisation When you temporarily do not have a connection to the internet, you can still work with your current Outlook information. When the internet connection returns, you can synchronise all the changes between the server and the client. All the mail you sent when you were off-line, will be sent when the connection to the server returns. Very convenient, especially when you travel a lot, and not always have access to the internet.

Quota support With Zarafa you have the possibility to set the maximum mailbox size per user. There are three levels of quota: warning, soft and hard. These settings allow you to specify when a user should receive a warning, when a user is unable to send new emails, and when no new items can be created at all, respectively.

Active Directory / LDAP integration Zarafa can be coupled with existing Active Directory or other LDAP servers, like OpenLDAP. With this integration you can use Zarafa very easily in your existing network situation; simply point Zarafa at your LDAP server, configure which attributes should be used, and Zarafa will automatically import all your users into the Zarafa database. This list is then kept up-to-date throughout the time that Zarafa runs, real-time.

POP3 / IMAP support Via a POP3 / IMAP gateway you can always retrieve your email from the Zarafa database via IMAP or POP3; users using POP3 or IMAP clients like Thunderbird can therefore use the same mail store as your Outlook users, making sure that e-mail is never stored twice and everything is always in-sync.

Storage

To make the sharing of all the information possible, everything is stored in a central stable MySQL database. With this comes the great advantage of an easy to execute daily backup.

Requirements:

￭ Needs Outlook