Horde

Horde is a new service which enables you to use METU Central E-mail service, organize your works with calendar, task, notes applications, and manage your METU account easily.

In addition to these features, Horde provides extra applications (ex. google search, external web site integration) that present all the information that our user needs together.

Detailed information is given below about Horde and basic applications in it.

• Calendars, tasks, address books and notes applications
• 41 languages, unicode support
• Customizable screen with applets for weather, quotes, etc.
• 25 different color themes
• Easy reporting problem to system administrator
• Import and export of external data (data of address book, calendars, notes, tasks etc.)
• Synchronization with PDAs, mobile phones
• METU user account management
• User preferences with configurable default values
• Strong integration, e.g. address book lookups in meeting planning, task due dates in calendar
• Additional features of the Webmail

Calendar

• Day, week, work week, month and year views
• Recurring and allday events
• Alarms with email notifications
• Simple and advanced search
• Meeting planning, also with other calendar applications
• sharing calendars with other METU user
• Email notification about changed events
• Remote calendar subscriptions
• External client integration (Outlook, Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird)

Address Book

• Distribution lists/email groups, also across address books
• Simple and advanced search
• Customizable address book listings
• vCard support
• Address book pager (rolodex)
• Customizable contact fields
• Integration of existing address books

Tasks

• Priorities and due dates
• Searchable descriptions
• Email notification about changed tasks
• Integration into external clients like Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, Microsoft Outlook
• vTodo support

My account

• Reset/ change password
• Upload/move/copy/delete file in METU user account
• Change directory permissions

Notes

• Fulltext search
• Character counter
• Easy import/export of notes
• Sorting notes
• Easy convertion of notes to pdf file

Additional features of the Webmail

• IMAP and POP3 webmail client
• Message filtering
• Message searching
• HTML message composition with WYSIWIG editor
• Built in attachment viewers
• Encrypting and signing of messages (S/MIME and PGP)
• Easy import/export of data

Bookmarks

• It allows to store your bookmarks in one place and access them from any browser and any computer.
• Easy import/export of bookmarks

Advanced features

• Keyboard navigation
• Full character set support for folders names and email messages
• Conversation view of all messages in a thread
• Folder tree in left menu pane
• Downloading of message attachments in a ZIP file
• Fetching of messages from external email accounts
• Graphical emoticons