Introduction

What is Carbonio?

Zextras Carbonio is the fully private email and collaboration platform, which consists of:

  • E-mail, Contacts and Calendar Essentials, all shareable across a domain

  • A complete mailserver, equipped with anti-spam and anti-virus software

  • Chat and Videochats

  • File Management System including collaborative editing and document sharing

Strong points of Carbonio include:

  • focus on Data Sovereignty and Privacy

  • simplicity to install as Linux packages and ready to use out of the box

  • comprehensive set of enterprise-level collaboration and communication features

  • scalability: set up a single-server, then easily add nodes as company’s infrastructure and needs grow

Browser Compatibility

All Carbonio features are accessible from a browser: the supported browser are listed 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 marked as “ Limited” are only supported on the browser’s two previous stable releases.

Hint

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

Available Languages

Carbonio's main language is English; the GUI is available in these languages.

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

  • Vietnamese

Contribution to the Documentation

We are in the process of putting the Carbonio-CE documentation on a public repository in order to allow contributions via pull request. In the meantime, if you want to help, we are happy to accept any kind of documentation. You can send your writings to .

Seeking Help on Carbonio

Besides this documentation, Zextras makes available the following online resources:

Community

Zextras Community is a collection of articles, guidelines, howtos, and other useful material about Zextras products, including Carbonio, 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 has its own https://community.zextras.com/forum/carbonio-general-thread/ section