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Overview

CommGate Mail Xchange (CMX) is a secure and robust email, contacts and group calendaring server solution based on Zimbra technologies. It is designed for small to medium businesses from 5 to 500 users environment with enterprise editions supporting virtually unlimited number of users inclusive of clustering abilities.

CommGate Mail Xchange is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. CMX delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with existing infrastructure and applications (both open source and proprietary).

What is CommGate Mail Xchange?

The CommGate Mail Xchange collaboration suite provides support for email, contacts, group calendaring and consists of a server and a client. It is a modern, innovative messaging and collaboration leading solution for enterprise, service provider, academic, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits.

CommGate Mail Xchange transforms email and collaboration to become more efficient, make administration and integration less painful, and drive down the total cost of ownership (TCO) in enterprise messaging.

Administrator Benefits

 

End User Benefits

Online move, backup and recovery of individual or a group of mailboxes

 

Browser based client with search, shared calendar and mail that is  integrated with contacts and calendar

Compatibility with Active Directory and existing LDAP directories

 

Support for Microsoft Outlook: calendar, mail, contacts and offline  mode

Native hierarchical storage management and clustering

 

Support for mobile devices: Blackberry, Treo and etc.

Web services integration with existing enterprise applications

 

Support of Windows, Apple and Linux computers

Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus

 

Mobile - Wireless devices "over the air" synchronization sans special client software:  
Blackberry, Palm, Nokia, Motorola, Good, PocketPC, etc.

Rich, zero footprint, AJAX-based administrator interface (cross browser/OS)

 

Self-Organizing Mailboxes. Powerful, fast search (including messages and attachments), saved searches across folders

Dashboards for real-time system activity

 

Group scheduling with free/busy management and controls

Comprehensive command-line tools

 

Multiple calendars per user with Calendar delegation and sharing

SOAP APIs for every administrative action

 

Extensible model for linking message content to external web services and applications
(expressable via hover-over and/or click)

Substantial reduction in managed storage - One copy of email & attachments per server (rather than one per user or one per storage group)

 

Efficient context switching e.g. Quickly view/create calendar appointments while in mail.
Quickly create/edit contacts while in mail. 

Quickly view sender’s website  while in mail

Substantial increase in the number of users per CPU - Multi-level caching and optimization of underlying system

 

Security sans VPN. Secure, read-only access to
attachments without special-purpose client software

Web services – Full API for easy Bi-directional integration with enterprise applications like CRM,
ERP, etc.

 

Modern collaboration styles/formats using 

RSS/ATOM feeds and Tags

Client - Outlook, Mobile, IMAP, POP, iCalendar, RSS, etc.

 

Integrated per user anti-spam filters

Messaging Server - Co-existence and migration tools (including Microsoft Exchange)

 

All emails, contacts and schedules stored on server with optional Outlook synchronization

Web security model - Single sign-on, TLS/SSL, no VPN required

 

Access email, contacts and calendar from anywhere, anytime using PDAs, emaik
clients, or just a web browser

Secured attachment opening and HTML rendering

 

No more worries about losing email when upgrading a PC or when the system crash!

Open formats - One MIME message per file means storage is not opaque to sys. admin. or operating system utilities

 

Finally, an integrated email, contacts and calendaring system that works for you
and allows you to collaborate in an integrated manner