Typically a basic POP or IMAP email service is offered in conjunction with a hosting agreement, ISP services, or just as part of a web service. POP or IMAP mail provides just basic messaging capabilities in comparison with Hosted Exchange 2007. POP or IMAP services are often supplied without business critical features such as Backup, Anti-Spam or Anti-Virus leaving your organisation exposed.
Weakness of Traditional POP 3 / IMAP 4 Email Service
POP or IMAP email services are often consumer focused with little understanding or targeted functionality for business users.
Typically not well supported these basic services are not designed to cope with the demands of modern dynamic business. These services
also offer weak Microsoft Office integration and webmail systems are typically very low featured. Mobility integration
(with potentially expensive data contracts to support IMAP / POP connections) are generally not fit for business use. POP and
IMAP services often have a requirement for in house technical skills to understand both of these complex email protocols.
Features of Active Mail with Outlook or Entourage
- Full Outlook or Entourage Client Access
- Contact management, global contact lists, event and calendar management
- Resource scheduling and administration, task management and shared folders
- Company-wide free / busy schedules
- Inbox rules and spam filtering to manage the flow of incoming messages
- Multi-coloured flagging to mark messages for follow-up, prioritisation, searching and categorisation
- Recovery of sent and deleted messages
- Out-of-office automatic reply
