“IMail Version 10. Even Smarter.”

Smart people use email. Smarter people use IMail. So, what makes IMail Version 10 the smarter choice?

We added many new features to our already existing line-up. We’ve improved your safety, made the interface more user-friendly and made IMail Server even faster for slow connections like dial up.

Ipswitch started out by designing its own Digital Rights Management tool to replace HASP from Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Inc. This tool will protect licensing, and secures delivery for all Messaging software. All previous IMail versions will still continue to run on HASP.

With Version 10, System Administrators will have more control over security for their users. Version 10 offers a User Password Complexity Setting. System Administrators can now decide how stringent user passwords should be. In harmony with this feature, is Account Suspension from failed Logins (Web Messaging only). If a user fails to login with the correct ID and password after a predetermined number of times (determined by the System Administrator) that account will be suspended.

To make trouble shooting easier, we’ve also added the Web Client Impersonation feature. This tool will give System Administrators the capability to access user web mail and preferences, without asking for a user’s password.

IMail Server Version 10 is more intuitive than previous releases. Listening to customer demands, Version 10 has the convenience of checkboxes for message selection/deletion. We also upgraded the web calendar user-interface to make scheduling tasks and appointments simple.

User Interfaces have been updated in several places to provide more ease-of-use. The Contacts Interface has many changes. A search feature has been added to quickly find a user. Contacts can be sorted by clicking on titles (Display Name and Email Address). All contacts are displayed one per line, with telephone numbers, if applicable. The Interfaces for your Preferences and for Creating/Editing Contacts have both been split into tab sections for easy visibility.

Perhaps one of the smartest new options is Web Messaging Lite. This new web client is a “slimmed down” version of our standard web client. Users with low-bandwidth connections like dial up can use Web Messaging Lite to access their mailboxes more quickly. They can choose this option when they are logging in. In Web Messaging Lite users can use the new “check all” preference to either mark all messages on the current page or all messages in the mailbox folder.

IMail Server Version 10 is our best offering to date. It is available today for you to upgrade or purchase. We also have a free trial on our website at www.imailserver.com. Please contact one of our helpful account managers at 706-312-3540 if you have any questions or would like to purchase IMail Server Version 10.

IMail Server announced today that it was awarded the Network Computing Awards 2008 Messaging Product of the Year. Hosted annually, the awards ceremony recognizes outstanding products and services in the network computing industry.

“I am thrilled to win this award,” says Tripp Allen, President of Ipswitch - Messaging Division. “It is an honor to lead a team that focuses on excellence in software development and superior customer support and satisfaction.” Winners are chosen by the readers of Network Computing magazine.

IMail Server is a messaging solution for small to mid-sized businesses. Besides offering premium anti-spam and leveraging third-party anti-virus solutions, IMail also offers secure instant messaging and shared calendaring to make scheduling tasks and appointments easy.

“We will continue to focus on customer satisfaction with high quality software, excellent support, and by adding the features that our customers have requested,” says Allen. IMail has added many of these new features, including the much requested low-bandwidth webmail client, in their new IMail Server Version 10.

Another Ipswitch, Inc. product, WhatsUp Gold, secured runner-up to Cisco for Network Monitoring System of the Year at the same ceremony. Ipswitch, Inc. develops IT software products for businesses worldwide. Created in 1991 by Roger Greene, the company now has three product divisions: Network Management, File Transfer, and Messaging.

For more information about IMail Server and their products, please visit http://www.imailserver.com. Visit http://www.ipswitch.com for information about Ipswitch, Inc. or any of their other products.

IPv6 came a step closer yesterday as ICANN added IPv6 host records to the root DNS servers, reports the BBC. ‘Paul Twomey, president of Icann which oversees the addressing system, told the BBC News website there was a need to start moving to IPv6. “There’s pressure for people to make the conversion to IPv6,” he said. “We’re pushing this as a major issue.” The reason for the urgency, he said, was because the unallocated addresses from the total of 4,294,967,296 possible with IPv4 was rapidly running out. “We’re down to 14% of the unallocated addresses out of the whole pool for version 4,” he said. Projections suggest that this unallocated pool will run out by 2011 at the latest.’”

A Polish IT worker has calculated the exact speed of snail mail after receiving on 3 January a letter which was sent priority mail on 20 December, Reuters reports. Michal Szybalski whipped out his calculator and determined that the missive had spent 294 hours in transit, covering the 11.1km between sender and recipient. The letter had therefore travelled at a mean velocity of 0.03775km/h, which is slower than a Polish garden snail which can clock 0.048km/h, according to Szybalski.

We can’t help feeling there’s a hefty research grant out there waiting for some university team willing to calculate the average speed of mail worldwide in relation to various species of snail, and the possible repercussions on global warming.

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/25/snail_mail/