AJAX Webmail: Features and Benefits
The benefits of using the PostPath Webmail Client include:
- Easy to use, great to look at, highly responsive, Ajax web client
- Works well across a wide range of browser types and client operating systems
- Full featured email
- Full featured calendaring, including shared group calendaring, free/busy, and multiple calendars
- Full contacts list and address book support
- Rich task ("To-Do List") feature set
- Interoperability - All the work you do via the web-browser is available via Outlook™ and vice-versa, and web-browser-only accounts, if any, can for example see the same authorized free-busy information as any other account in the system, including the free-busy for users who do not use the web client themselves.
- Security via VPN and/or via (SSL/TLS)
Using PostPath allows the enterprise to run a wide mixture of client-side applications:
- Microsoft desktop - Outlook™ (Online, Offline, Cached Mode)
- Support for mobile devices with Microsoft-compatible synchronization, including mobile platforms such as Blackberry™ via Blackberry Enterprise Gateway™
- Browser-based AJAX web client supported cross-platform
- IMAP, POP and SMTP clients such as Apple Mail™, Eudora™, Evolution™, Thunderbird™/Sunbird™
- Custom enterprise Ajax applications
PostPath Server™ Solution:
- PostPath Web Access Server can run on the same machine as the PostPath Server™, or on a different machine. You can have both components in the DMZ or one in the DMZ and one behind a firewall, or both behind a firewall.
- The PostPath Web Access Server solution runs on Linux and Apache. This is of course the same software that runs on the majority of the world's web servers - it is a well-proven and virus-resistant software stack.