Legal / Law News: Atmail Releases Atmail Messaging Software Version 6.1.7

Atmail releases latest version of Atmail 6, the core of its Email Server, Email Server Appliance and Webmail product lines.

Chaska, MN (PRWEB) April 21, 2010 -- Atmail, a leading developer of software applications for email messaging and collaboration, with over 14 million paid mailboxes worldwide, has released Version 6.1.7 of their messaging software. The latest release adds further enhancements to the calendaring and the next-generation Webmail UI. Version 6.1.7 features several significant advancements in the areas of improved performance, using intelligent client-side caching. With intelligent client-side caching of various data requested from the server improves UI performance, while reducing the load on the back-end server. Overall calendar performance has also improved.

Atmail competes with Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes and other market leaders, as well as commercial open source offerings like Zimbra, by creating cost effective messaging solutions, powered by open protocols. Atmail 6 is constantly evolving to accommodate the needs of the industry. New features are added regularly to increase the overall value to Atmail clients. Since the introduction of Atmail 6.0 in July 2009, there have been several features added and over one hundred improvements have been made to the application.

Highlights:

Complete Mail Server Support - Atmail Email Server includes support for SMTP, POP3 & IMAP protocols. The Atmail Server is presented with the intuitive and easy to use Webadmin and WebMail interfaces, making open-source easy.

Groupware Server - The Atmail Server can be used as a lightweight Exchange alternative. Users share address-book, calendar and task data with other users on the system. iCal/CalDAV support is included to synchronize data between the calendar server, desktop clients and mobile devices such as an iPhone.

Webmail Client included - With the ability for users to change account passwords, specify auto-reply messages, email forwarding rules, Spam settings and more. The Webmail client supports email threading, conversations, attachment preview/thumbnails and more.

Email Server Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Filter Support - The Atmail Server can scan incoming and outgoing messages for viruses, protecting user accounts from infection. Email that contains viruses (as attachments, even if compressed) are automatically deleted from the system. Each message received via the SMTP server can be filtered by the Anti-Virus plugin and mail delivered to the users mailbox if the email is clean. A comprehensive email filter powered by SpamAssassin and extra runtime settings at the SMTP server level to throttle and block Spammer connections. Features include Bayesian (learning) filters, DNSBL support, URI checking in messages against blacklists, auto-whitelist for trusted senders from recipients email history and Webadmin reporting utilities.

Comprehensive WebAdmin interface - The administration of the mail-server is made easy by utilizing a web browser based WebAdmin control-panel. Allowing the administrator of the service to add, delete, modify, migrate, and purge-user accounts. System aliases, graphical log statistics of mail-server usage ( sent/received message, AV/spam reports, user-logins via POP3/IMAP and more ).

About Atmail:
Atmail develops email messaging and collaboration solutions. Products include, Atmail Cloud Services, Atmail Webmail, Atmail Email Server, Atmail Email Server Appliance, Atmail ArchiveVault and Atmail ArchiveVault Appliance. The company has more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including many international companies, universities, service providers and government agencies. Atmail now has over 14 million users.

http://www.atmail.com

Webmail Demo: http://a6demo.atmail.com/
Web Admin Demo: http://a6demo.atmail.com/index.php/admin/

Media: http://www.atmail.com/media.php

Company contact: Gary Doan gary(at)staff(dot)atmail(dot)com
Press contact: Cynthia Phillips cyndi(at)liaise-flair(dot)com