Introduction
SmarterMail is a Microsoft Exchange server alternative that supports the MAPI protocol and allows you to easily add email accounts to Outlook. There is also a powerful web-client and it is a low-cost solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Additional features include organizational calendars, conference room scheduling, shared contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, group chat and scheduling, and user groups. For those concerned about security, it also includes industry-standard spam filtering and enterprise-level antivirus. SmarterMail appears to be one of the best solutions, aside from the Exchange server, with so many features. However, there are several reasons why organizations prefer to migrate from SmarterMail to Office 365, which we will discuss in the following section.