@Mail 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 2003/2000 and the Web-client.

@Mail Groupware contains three Address-book types:

• Global
  This is a group of Address-book entries representing every account on your @Mail 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.
  
  
• Personal
  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.
  
  
• Shared
  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.
  

@Mail Groupware Calendar:

The Calendar functionality of @Mail 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 Outlook 2000/2003.

Uses for @Mail Groupware:

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.

Technical Details

The @Mail database, utilizing MySQL, is used to store the Address-book and Calendar data.

Groupware features can be enabled/disabled on a per-group basis. Using the WebAdmin, the Administrator can turn the feature on/off for the entire system ( i.e., disable Groupware for Freemail/ISP sites ). The Administrator can also enable the Groupware on a per-user group basis ( e.g Staff users ) Outlook Synchronization is available, allowing users to sync Outlook Contacts/Tasks and Calendar data with the WebMail client. Full Source-code included. License to customize the Groupware module to fit your needs.