Mithi Connect Server is a collaboration infrastructure solution for the enterprises. Enabling them to communicate and collaborate over email, chat, SMS and shared calendar.

It’s inbuilt security and easy to use administrative interfaces, can help lower the complexity, costs and risks associated with creating a collaboration infrastructure for the enterprise.

End users get the following applications which can be accessed from browser based client (Baya collaboration station), desktop clients and mobile clients:

• Email
• SMS
• Chat and Instant Messaging
• Calendar
• Address Book
• Email Security
• Knowledge Discovery
• Mail Archival

Mithi Connect Server has a multilayered - multipoint security framework that includes

• Firewall
• Authentication
• Anti virus support
• Anti spam support
• Mail policy
• Authorization
• Access Control
• Password policies
• Archival

Mithi Connect Server provides easy to use browser based GUI and command line interfaces to Monitor, Manage and Maintain, Servers, domains and user functionality

How the solution can be adapted to serve your specific needs

• Internet Email Server
• Email gateway to an ISP
• Archival server
• Secure SMTP server
• Branch Mail Server
• In a highly available setup
• In a highly available and load balanced central setup
• In a geographically distributed setup
• In co-existence with proprietary email solutions (like MS-Exchange and/or Lotus Notes)

Mithi Connect Server coexists or has replaced MS Exchange, Lotus Domino and other Linux based message servers at over 250 customer locations, hosting from a small set-up of about a 100 users to large set-ups of 25,000 or more users..

Connect Server can server your needs whether you are looking at hosting your own in-house mail server, putting up a branch server, hosting an email gateway to fetch from an ISP, consolidating distributed mail servers, setting up a Secure SMTP gateway or are looking for a mail server to co-exist with your MS-Exchange/Lotus Notes server.

This is just a partial list of solutions possible. The extremely flexible architecture of Mithi Connect Server allows it to be deployed in these and many more different ways.

Mithi Connect Server supports the POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP protocols, has built in on-server virus and spam scanning, content filtering, policy control, firewall, connectivity management, web mail client, address books, directory service, etc. and can support multiple domains on a single server. Based on open standards the solution provides web service interfaces to communicate with other applications making it easy to integrate with other enterprise software.

• Email Server (SMTP, POP, IMAP based complete email server)
• Email Gateway/Retriever (periodic fetch, concurrent fetch cycles, size and number limits, etc)
• Public Folders
• Calendar integration
• Chat/IM
• Personal Address Book
• Global Address Book
• Corporate Directory (LDAP based with list of users and groups on domain)
• Desktop Address Book (plugin for MS Outlook range of clients to synchronize and use contacts from the server)

The services are accessible with popular email clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Novell Evolutions, Thunderbird etc. A browser based interface enables the Linux mail server to be easily configured and managed from a Windows or Linux PC, with significant saving in deployment, management and training costs. The software is designed to allow 'plugging in' of different third party applications. Mithi Web Mail a high performance web mail and collaboration application forms part of the standard Mithi Connect Server package along with some select third party applications like a shared web Calendar, Instant messenger etc. Email services can also be accessed via a mobile device over GPRS using a mobile office client compliant with mailing standards. Blackberry users can also use the email services over POP/SMTP via the integration facility provided by the mobile service provider.

• Web Mail - Web Mail client
• Compatibility (to desktop email clients (LDAP/SMTP/IMAP/POP), standard protocols)
• Mobile device compliant with mailing protocols

Based on the robust Linux and OSS platform, Mithi Connect Server provides an enterprise messaging solution that's secure, easy to maintain and requires lower up-front investment in software licensing than proprietary software. It's easy to use interface design lowers training needs and saves on the operating costs, enabling organisations to create an efficient and low cost enterprise wide communication infrastructure to improve workplace productivity. The software has been designed to co-exist with other mail server applications such as Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Notes.
Mithi Connect Server can be deployed on 32 or 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.

• Applications Manager - Multi level (Users and Administrator can use this) Configuration and Management console (Web based remote access and SSH based command line access)
• Server Manager - Configuration and Management console (Web based remote access and SSH based command line access)
• Role based administration Authentication and authorization framework to define multiple administrators with different rights.
• Security Anti virus, Anti Spam, firewall and a security framework
• Reporting (Health, mail usage, delivery, events)
• Monitoring (Services, logs, alerts, connection)
• Backups (Single click, remote copy, schedule, multiple jobs)
• Comprehensive online documentation
• Interfaces to support third party software integration/communication (Web services)
• Multiple domain support