Comparison Chart - Dated - 27 October 2004

A customer asked us to provide a chart like this to make it easier to asses the two products and see where differences do exist and where they do not. We hope this is useful, if it includes any errors please let us know so we can correct them. If you know of a feature which you particularly want to confirm does/doesn't exist in SurgeMail then email our support desk and we will add it to the table.

From what we know of CommuniGate Pro it is a fine feature rich product. Frankly there aren't many significant differences at the main feature level, there are no doubt more subtle differences within the features, we recommend customers try the products in question to be sure whichever product fully fullfills their needs.

Feature	SurgeMail	CommuniGate Pro
RFC compliant support for SMTP/POP3/IMAP4/HTTP/HTTPS	Yes	Yes
WebMail	Yes	Yes
Dynamic clusters	Yes	Yes
MAPI (Outlook gateway)	No	Yes
Groupware Calender Scheduler	Yes	Yes
Instant Messaging	Yes	Yes
Front End Servers for handling incoming load	Yes	Yes
Mirror Servers (Live duplication of mail system for failover)	Yes	No
Mailing Lists	Yes	Yes
SurgePlus File Sharing module.	Yes	No
Exceptional Customer Support	Yes	Yes
Choose an authent module (Built in, ODBC, SQL, LDAP, ...)	Yes	Yes (Limited)
Shared NFS/Cluster spool area	Yes	Yes
Scalability to large systems with 1 million plus users	Yes	Yes
Modern Spam prevention systems	Yes (Free)	Yes (Add On)
Strict SPF system with user allow messages	Yes	No
Friends system Challenge/Response (spam prevention)	Yes	No
Available on Linux, FreeBSD, OS/X, Windows, Solaris	Yes	Yes
A friendly focus towards the ISP market with pricing and features aimed at that market.	Yes	No
Clearly published prices for any sized system	Yes	No
Pricing Example (at time of writing this)	$370 (100 user)	$1,199 (50 user)

Recommended Migration method for converting users/folders to SurgeMail

SurgeMail - Detailed Feature Information

Download Now!

Satisfaction Guaranteed! We stand behind our software, if you are not satisfied with the product, performance or customer support we will refund your purchase or work to resolve whatever issues you raise.