Sunday, August 8, 2010

Mail For All - Coming in September

Though we have had always offered full e-mail services for our clients, one area that was always lacking, based on customer feedback, was webmail.  People do like to check their e-mail from any web brower or other device, and do not want to be tied down to a desktop mail client.  Our mail server, developed by Argo Software Design, has been through many updates, stability fixes, and spam-rule testing, so we don't want to give up this system for mail delivery in general.  However, the webmail interface was always lacking something, and we are always looking to offer greater flexibility to our customers in web mail. 
As such we are making the following changes:

- On September 1, 2010, your web mail site will switch to http://webmail.domain.tld/, where domain.tld is your domain name.   This new site is made possible by AfterLogic, and offers full AJAX web mail, robust address book with contact import capability, direct SPAM reporting capability, and more. 

- The current webmail login page will remain available at http://mail.domain.tld/, at leat until December 2010.  After that date, you will no longer be able to read and reply to your mail on that site, but DOMAIN ADMINISTRATORS will still be able to manage users, groups. and distribution lists.  Note that the new webmail system allows even non-admin users to create and manage their own user lists and distribution groups, so the only time a domain admin would ever access this "legacy" page is in fact to ADD a new user and set or change his or her mailbox size.  User password management will also still be available here. 

- What's even nicer about this new system is that you will be able to check certain THIRD PARTY e-mail accounts, assuming they support POP3 and IMAP.  If you login using ADVANCED mode, you can specify the incoming and outgoing mail servers, just as you would with a standard mail client, so for example you can get hotmail, gmail, and more right from our site.  It will truly be one-stop-shopping for your messages.

We hope you enjoy these new features!

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