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Introduction

First things first: What is Carbonio CE?

The free and open-source email and collaboration programme Zextras Carbonio CE contains of

  • Shareable across a domain include email, contacts, and calendaring essentials.
  • a full-featured mail server with antivirus and anti-spam software
  • (Upcoming) Chat
  • File-management programme with group editing and document sharing

Carbonio CE has several advantages, including:

  • concentrate on privacy and data sovereignty
  • simplicity of installation due to Linux packages’ out-of-the-box usability
  • the adaptability required by today’s collaborative workplaces
Browser Compatibility

Accessibility through a browser is possible for all Carbonio functions; the supported browsers are mentioned in Table 1.

Table 1 List of supported browsers

Browser

Version

OS

Supported

Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

Latest

Windows

 Yes

Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

Others

Windows

 Limited

Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML)

Any

Windows

 No

Internet Explorer

Any

Windows

 No

Mozilla Firefox

Latest

Windows/Linux/OSX

 Yes

Mozilla Firefox

ESR

Windows/Linux/OSX

 Yes

Mozilla Firefox

Others

Windows/Linux/OSX

 Limited

Google Chrome

Latest

Windows/Linux/OSX

 Yes

Google Chrome

Others

Windows/Linux/OSX

 Limited

Safari

Latest

OSX

 Yes

Safari

Others

OSX

 Limited

Items with the designation “Limited” are only compatible with the browser’s two most recent stable versions.

Hint

We suggest to always use the latest version available of the browser.

Zextras Carbonio CE is available for free download and is open source.

Various Languages

English is the primary language of Carbonio CE, and these languages are offered for the Web GUI.

Officially included languages

  • English (GB, US, AU)

  • Dutch

  • French

  • German

  • Hindi

  • Indonesian

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Portoguese (PT, BR)

  • Russian

  • Simplified Chinese

  • Spanish

  • Thai

Community supported languages

  • Polish

  • Turkish

Volunteer Translators

Zextras provides competent people who want to assist with translation with access to an online translation platform.

We encourage translation into any presently unsupported languages, but we can’t make any promises about when they’ll really be included in the final product.

For further information on the subject or to offer your services as a volunteer translator, e-mail translators@zextras.com.

Contribution to the documentation

The documentation for Carbonio CE’s source code is now accessible in a public repository housed on Github.

Any type of documentation that is developed in accordance with the standards and is submitted as a pull request is welcome. Send an email to documentation@zextras.com if you have any ideas for the documentation or if you need help using Python Sphinx, the framework we use to write the documentation.

In need of Carbonio CE Assistance

In addition to this documentation, Zextras offers the following web sources:

Community

Zextras Community is a collection of articles, guidelines, howtos, and other useful material about Zextras products, including Carbonio CE, whose dedicated section is https://community.zextras.com/zextras-carbonio/

Official Discussion Forum

The Official Forum is the place where the community members interact, search for useful resources, provide own feedback, share their experiences, or comment articles. Carbonio CE has its own https://community.zextras.com/forum/carbonio-general-thread/ section