Blue Mind 2.0 is available after 6 months of intensive coding and testing.

The 1.0 release last year had met great reception from customers and partners and settled Blue Mind as the major Open Source alternative for Exchange, Domino or Zimbra.

2.0 improves the product usability and strengthens the infrastructure capacities to meet big installations needs. Novelties :

• 1 Global features
  • 1.1 Strengthened and simplified installation
  • 1.2 Slovak and Spanish languages added
  • 1.3 General performances improvement
  • 1.4 SOAP support in Web-services API
• 2 Usability
  • 2.1 New webmail UI
  • 2.2 Blue Mind calendar in a Thunderbird tab
• 3 Infrastructure
  • 3.1 High Availability
  • 3.2 Advanced backup
  • 3.3 Archival and hierarchical storage
• 4 Other new features
  • 4.1 Advanced identities management
  • 4.2 Domain and shared mailboxes SIEVE filters
  • 4.3 Domain calendars and addressbooks
• 5 Other improvements

1 Global features

1.1 Strengthened and simplified installation

Install is now directly from an autonomous script :

• Run the script for the selected distribution
• Connect to the web setup app

1.2 Slovak and Spanish languages added

• French
• English
• Spanish
• Slovak

Spanish and Slovak come from validated contributions !

An on-line translation tool is now available to help i18n contributions, (see contribution rules from the link).

1.3 General performances improvement

The modern Blue Mind architecture has been designed with big installations in mind. Web-services, locally running web app, Thunderbird integration are geared toward high performance.

2.0 benefited from customers feedback through big deployments and led to many optimizations. Single server installs can now handle thousands of users with limited tuning.

1.4 SOAP support in Web-services API

One Blue Mind strengh is its full API coverage. To simplify usage from most programming languages, our webservices are now available as SOAP.

Native Java client remains the primary way to use the APIs.

This SOAP API is very usefull for our SaaS partners to automate administration tasks and integrate with their other services

2 Usability

2.1 New webmail UI

The webmail has been completly revamped to catch up with Blue Mind User Experience.

2.2 Blue Mind calendar in a Thunderbird tab

Thunderbird displays the Blue Mind calendar in a new tab. Simplicity ! Users don’t need to learn differents interfaces, they get the same UI when using the web interface or the Thunderbird client Features ! Thunderbird at the same features level as Outlook with shared calendars, personal views, resources handling, PDF prints,.. Thunderbird off-line mode is supported

3 Infrastructure

3.1 High Availability : HA made easy

End of complex and low level High Availability configurations, with Blue Mind 2.0 you get : Graphical and easy configuration from the Setup Wizard. Specify few parameters (network, storage) to set up your HA. 2 supported modes : centralized data or data replication (this last mode not available in every distributions)

3.2 Advanced backup : Save time, save storage space !

A new backup system is provided and has been unified (Open and with the subscription offer) and brings : Big speed improvements : backups are incremental. Only the differences since last backup are transferred. New feature : backup history is maintained for point in time recoveries. Storage savings : backup history is kept without duplicating data, with each backup generation remaining autonomous from a recovery point of view. 3.3 Archiving and hierarchical storage

Hierarchical storage allows to define an archive server to store older messages on cheaper storage and provides : Archive rules (emails older than X days, ..) by users, groups and domains Seamless display of archived emails from Blue Mind webmail and clients (Thunderbird, Outlook,..)

4 Other new features

4.1 Advanced identities management

• Multiples identities per email addresses.
• Signatures templates for shared mailboxes (users or services)
• Identities management according to delegation rights on the mailbox (I can only use a signature for "support@mydomain.com" if I have delegation rights on this mailbox)

4.2 Domain and shared mailboxes SIEVE filters

• Domain-wide SIEVE filters (global rules, SPAM handling,..)
• SIEVE filters on shared mailboxes

4.3 Domain calendars and addressbooks

• Domain calendars, for corporate calendars as holidays, corporate events, marketing operations, Blue Mind release dates,..
• Domain addressbooks

5 Other improvements

All the apps (Calendar, Contact, admin console, Settings, Outlook and Thunderbird connectors,..) have seen a lot of small and medium improvements.

Blue Mind Javascript apps now handle the new IndexedDb and WebSQL browser storages to allow bigger storage capacity for common browsers. The storage to use is automatically selected by Blue Mind according to the browser, its version and the connection mode (public / private). No plugin is needed. This is an important step toward our future webmail with offline support.