Collax Groupware Suite
The Collax Groupware Suite (email and Groupware Server) is a real alternative to Microsoft Exchange with a complete team working solution featuring E-Mail, Calendar, Tasks and Contacts system incorporated into a purpose built server architecture. A way to cut your costs (a cheaper groupware server).
This result is a Groupware server that not only provides groupware functionality but also Storage, Networking and E-Mail Security features (groupware plus). Companies therefore get a scalable, secure and complete groupware solution unlike any other: A unique purpose built platform with leading groupware features including mobile device access.
The email and Groupware Server is a fully business complete server. Although this product is designed and built for smaller businesses groupware requirements it features functionality and scalability usually only found in enterprise priced products. A real Microsoft Exchange alternative for Groupware Servers.
The Collax Groupware Suite (email and Groupware server):
Always up to Date
Synchronization of Laptops and Mobile Phones
Give your field staff access to E-Mail, calendar, tasks, and contacts centrally stored in your company. No more prolonged coordination calls or planning errors! Your employees are informed immediately whenever appointments change. The same applies to important business messages that are automatically transmitted from the server to the laptop or mobile phone. Of course, your employees can also update their data via their mobile device when on the road. A true alternative to Microsoft Exchange Groupware Server.
Synchronization is possible with mobile phones from Nokia, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Google Android and iPhone.
Everything OK
E-Mail Security
The Collax Groupware Suite (email and Groupware Server) protects you from all risks that could damage your systems originating from E-Mail traffic. Specifically viruses and spam are removed cleanly and reliably. During development a good deal of effort was placed on spam detection. As incoming E-Mails pass through several detection stages, even a spam E-Mail that cunningly sneaks past one individual filter is then intercepted by the next. Apart from high spam detection rates the Collax solution has a very low false positive rate (E-Mails mistakenly identified as spam). This is vital for a real Groupware server solution.
Available Everywhere
Web Access
Web access Groupware server feature enables employees who work remotely, do not use a dedicated computer or do not use a specific E-Mail program to access to their E-Mails, appointments, tasks and contacts as usual by using an internet browser. The Outlook-compatible look & feel also helps employees become familiar with the system very quickly.
Protection from Loss of Data
Backup and Restore
The Collax Groupware Suite (email and Groupware Server) has a complete built-in backup and restore system. This means you can back up the entire server, together with its payload and configuration data, easily and with no additional software requirements. In the event of a server or client failure, all your communication data is stored safely and easily restored.
Audit-Proof and Useful
Collax E-Mail Archive
The option to the Groupware Server is the Collax E-Mail Archive enables you to comply fully with your managerial/legal obligations to archive mission-relevant E-Mails. All E-Mails are digitally signed and then stored in an audit-proof archive. The Archive can also be included in the backup process too. The interface, with its easy search function, enables individual users to search and restore deleted E-Mails: Complete Groupware Server.
Versatility
Fax & SMS Server
The Collax email and Groupware Server enables you to provide every employee or individual departments with a virtual fax machine. In this way employees can send and receive fax messages in their standard work environment. This way cumbersome printing of fax messages and endless fax advertising become things of the past.
Users can also be enabled to send SMS via E-Mail from their mail environment.
Your reasons to choose:
- More efficient team working: Sharing of calendar, tasks, and contacts with all colleagues in the workplace is Groupware.
- Access from anywher: Mobile device sharing of calendar, tasks, and contacts with all colleagues in the workplace
- Compatible with Outlook: Complete compatibility and connectivity to Microsoft Outlook
- Protection from spam and viruses: Elimination of spam and viruses with built-in filtration system
- Integrated mail server: Complete with mail server to ensure simple and full installation
- Fax & SMS: The built-in fax server that transparently provides fax capabilities to all team members
- Always up to date: The optional maintenance makes sure you always have the latest features & functions
- E-Mail archive: The optional Collax E-Mail Archive provides audit-proof E-Mail archiving
- A real and stable alternative to Microsoft Exchange that is echonomical and easy to install
- Also way to cut your costs (a cheaper server) in Groupware servers.
Base System of the Collax Groupware Suite
- Web-based modern AJAX interface for all Groupware Server functions
- Smart permission system
- Automatic generation of PDF forms for new users
- System monitoring including E-Mail notification
- User management: central administration of users and rights in LDAP, local or remote, PDC functionality, PDC and Microsoft ADS connection, Kerberos
- Backup and restore via SMB, NFS, and tape
- Groupware server maintenance and care including update management
- Certificate management for access authorization
- File server functionality (SMB/CIFS, NFS, AFS, WebDAV, FTP, Web access)
Mail Server
- Direct reception of E-Mail via a special MX record
- Retrieval from a provider via POP3, IMAP, multidrop, SSL encryption
- Connection to all common mail programs, such as Outlook-type clients or Thunderbird
- Integrated Web mailer - Vital for all Groupware Server solutions
E-Mail Functions
- Support of various formats such as HTML, RTF, or plain text
- Deferred transmission
- Substitution arrangements
- Indication when the substitute has read E-Mail
- Absence wizard - server-based rules (sieve rules)
- Automatic archiving support of Outlook (not audit-proof)
- Categorization of E-Mails in various groups
- Individual E-Mails or mailboxes can be restored with the brick-level backup and restore functions included with Zarafa Groupware Server
Contacts
- Create, move, copy, and delete contacts
- Create distribution lists
- Send business cards
- Global address book
- Private contacts without access by colleagues
Calendar
- Create, move, copy, and delete appointments via the client
- Invite colleagues to appointments
- Manage shared resources like multimedia projects or meeting rooms
- Share calendars with substitutes
- Group and team calendar function
Tasks
- Create, move, copy, and delete tasks
- Delegate tasks to colleagues
- Private tasks without access by colleagues
Web Access
- Groupware Server Web Access: SSL-encrypted user portal accessible via browser
- All Outlook data are available in the Outlook look & feel via Web access
- Access to all shared folders, tasks, contacts, and E-Mail
- Access to the Web access portal via PDA with a resolution of 320 x 240
- Drag & drop functionality within the Web access
- Group calendar and multiple calendar view
E-Mail Security
- E-Mail proxy/E-Mail relay for the SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 protocols
- Multi-level spam filter
- Tarpit emulation
- Graylisting
- Realtime blackhole lists (RBL) & DNS blacklists (DNSBL)
- Client HELO identification
- Reputation filter
- Heuristic check
- Self-learning filters & trainable filters
- SPF check
- Blacklists and whitelists
- Header and attachment filter
- Filter for header entries and attachments
- Basic anti-virus protection based on ClamAV
- Expanded virus protection with Collax Anti Virus or Avira AntiVir
Audit-Proof E-Mail Archive (Optional)
- Comprehensive search function – easy use via browser and Web access
- Automatic ISO generation for archiving on CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc
- Overall index is always available, even after transferring data to external storage
- Data integrity: signed filing, retrieval subject to authentication
- User and auditor access
Fax and SMS Server
- Fax2mail, mail2fax, and mail2SMS
- Content or E-Mail attachment can be sent by fax; fax printer support
IM Server
- Standard client for Windows. Clients are available free of charge and compatible
- Supported clients/protocols: Jabber, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo
- Processor: Intel Pentium oder kompatibel
- Periferals: Bootable CD-ROM drive
- Hard Disk: 8 GB RAID (or larger, depending on the amount of data)
- Network: 1 NIC (100/10 Mbit)
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- For installation: VGA graphic card, keyboard, monitor
| Product download |  |
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| ISO Collax Groupware Suite (md5sum) | < 10 KB |  |
| ISO Collax Groupware Suite | 673 MB | |
| It is always highly recommended to check the validity of all files downloaded from the internet. To check the authentication of the above file please check your generated MD5 against the one we supply. For Windows systems we recommend the following product: http://etree.org/md5com.html | ||
| Clients | |
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| Zarafa Client 6.40.4 | 10.73 MB | |
| Zarafa Migration tools 6.40.2 | 6.32 MB | |
| Zarafa Client 6.40.2 | 10.72 MB | |
| Zarafa Migration tools 6.30.14 | 1.76 MB | |
| Zarafa Client 6.30.14 | 6.54 MB | |
| Zarafa Migration tools 6.30.9 | 1.76 MB | |
| Zarafa Client 6.30.9 | 6.54 MB | |
| Zarafa Migration tools 6.30.5 | 1.76 MB | |
| Zarafa Client 6.30.5 | 6.5 MB | |
| Zarafa Migration tools 6.30.3 | 1.83 MB | |
| Zarafa Client 6.30.3 | 6.55 MB | |
| Zarafa Migration tools 6.20.9 | 1.78 MB | |
| Zarafa Client 6.20.9 | 6.21 MB | |
| Datasheet | |
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| Collax Groupware Suite_EN.pdf | 0.9 MB |  |
| Manual | |
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| Administration Manual Collax Groupware Suite | 5.89 MB | |
| Release notes | |
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| 5.0.32 | 0.01 MB | |
| 5.0.28 | 0.01 MB | |
| 5.0.26 | < 10 KB | |
| 5.0.24 | < 10 KB | |
| 5.0.22 | 0.01 MB | |
| 5.0.20 | 0.01 MB | |
| 5.0.18 | < 10 KB | |
| 5.0.16 | 0.01 MB | |
| 5.0.14 | 0.01 MB | |
| 5.0.12 | 0.01 MB | |
| 5.0.10 | < 10 KB | |
| 5.0.8 | 0.01 MB | |
| Howto/White Paper | |
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| Collax Backup Howto | 1.8 MB | |
| Collax Howto-iso on a USB.pdf | 0.41 MB | |
| Installing Collax Modules Howto | 1.51 MB | |
| Collax Mail Server Howto | 0.92 MB | |
| Zarafa Plugin Integration Howto | 0.53 MB | |
| Collax Spam Filter Howto | 0.6 MB | |
| Collax Server Installation Guide | 0.28 MB | |
| Installation and Configuration of Zarafa Groupware | 0.72 MB | |
| Productflyer | |
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| AllInOne_Collax_EN.pdf | 0.74 MB | |
| Miscellaneous | |
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| Hardware Compatibility List: Collax Server | 0.22 MB | |
Partner Finder
If you would like to purchase a Collax product, or talk to a qualified Collax IT expert, please use the following form to find a Collax partner near you. Note that wild card searches are allowed (e.g. 8*)
Country:
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Collax Distributors
| Italy | Omnis Systems | Tel.: +39 (0) 522 1710285 | E-Mail: sales@omnis-systems.com | |
| Switzerland | Informica GmbH | Tel.: +41 (0) 71 944 44 33 | E-Mail: info@informica.ch | |
| UK | Omnis Systems | Tel.: TBA | E-Mail: sales@omnis-systems.com | |
| Germany | Rombus IT Distribution GmbH | Tel.: 49 (0) 2951 606-0 | E-Mail: info@rombus.de |
Headquarters
Collax GmbH
Gutenbergstr. 1
85737 Ismaning
Phone: +49 (0) 89-990157-0
Fax: +49 (0) 89-990157-11
Email: sales[at]collax.com
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