Atmail Groupware combines the ability to share Address-book and Calendar Items/Tasks among groups of users with optional permission levels (Read/Write and Read-Only). The system provides a complete Web-based Groupware system for users within your organization. The Groupware module also provides an Outlook-to-webmail synchronization utility, allowing Contacts and Calendar data to be shared between Outlook and the Web-client.
This is a group of Address-book entries representing every account on your Atmail system. If you are providing public email services, the Global Address-book can be disabled via the WebAdmin control panel. The Global Address-book is useful to an organization of any size.
The Personal Address-book allows users to separate personal contacts from Global and Shared contacts. These contacts can only be viewed by the individual user-account.
The Shared Address-book is similar to the Personal Address-book, with the additional functionality of sharing contacts with other users (or groups of users). Shared contacts can be assigned read/write permissions; enabling the users with whom the contacts are shared to modify the contact entries directly. Optionally, read-only access can be granted to allow the entry to be viewed by selected users, but can only be modified by the original owner.
The Calendar functionality of Atmail Groupware allows users to assign tasks to one another and set appointments (reminders). Permission level settings are provided, enabling the owner of a task to enable or restrict the recipients' ability to modify the task.
The Web-based Calendar and address-book can be synchronized to a desktop client running all versions of Outlook.
You can create a global Calendar for your organization, and notify everyone of meetings and important events.
You can schedule and share tasks with other employees, (especially useful for adhoc Groups working on a project where members will be added or removed during the project lifecycle).
You can post a schedule for selected Users or Groups. For instance, create a Group for Sales and post sales leads and follow-ups to your sales team.
You can specify which users have read-only and read-write access to an appointment. In this way, you can allow only a specified set of people to alter the dates and details of appointments.
The Atmail database, utilizing MySQL, is used to store the Address-book and Calendar data.
To test drive the feature please visit the online demo and signup for a test account. You can also download and install the Atmail software on your own server.
