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NetMail: Mail Server and Client
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Email in a LAN - Access your emails
and dates from any PC in the network Mobile mail - Access your emails via POP3/SMTP or mobile NetMail client Web interface - Read and send emails and SMS messages with a web browser Server-based - All emails are stored on your server, allowing an easy backup Spam filter - Intelligent heuristic filters suppress spam mails, Trojans and viruses SMS gateway - With XL version email to SMS and also SMS to email Popup window - displays new email, current dates and system messages Check it out! - Free Light version with full functionality for up to 3 users: Download |
Free for up to 3 users, 83.19 ¤ excl. VAT for full version [Order] - Shamrock Software, +49 8137 5882
NetMail is an email system for network workstations, consisting of a mail/SMS gateway and a Windows client. Alternatively conventional POP3/SMTP clients or a webmail interface can be used. The software can also be combined with CapiFax and CapiCall to form a Unified Messaging System (UMS).
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In your office |
In a local-area network, NetMail provides groupware functions like email, SMS, diary, pinboard and instant messaging. You can read and write your emails on any workstation using the NetMail client software for Windows, and emails can be stored and searched in shared and private archives for later access. |
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Mobile |
Even while you are out and about, you still have access to the emails arriving at your office. Use your smartphone to read and write emails using POP3/SMTP, or a web browser for the web mail interface. Or use the mobile NetMail client to dial your server via ISDN, TCP/IP, GSM, GPRS or UMTS: With its highly optimized compressed protocol, connection volume and time is minimized. |
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Unified messaging |
Together with the CapiFax and CapiCall software NetMail can form a complete Unified Messaging System (UMS) so that voice messages or faxes can be forwarded as emails, or to send emails to any fax number. Using a GSM modem with a serial port even mail to SMS and SMS to mail is possible. |
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All you need |
Spell checker, private and shared mail archives, a keyword-driven personal autoresponder, MAPI support for third-party programs, automatically sending files at specified times by email (e.g. log files) and many other features are built into NetMail. Check out the free add-ons also, like an SMTP module for direct email reception. |
The following table compares NetMail with a conventional email program like Outlook Express. Most of the Outlook features are also true for other programs like Microsoft Mail, Netscape Messenger, Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, Tobit David, Eudora, Pegasus Mail and so on.
| NetMail compared to a conventional email program | Outlook | NetMail | |
| Common features in a network |
Access your emails from any workstation SMS transmission/reception integrated Webmail interface: Mail access via browser Receive emails directly with SMTP module Spam filter with score rules (fuzzy logic) Heuristic virus/Trojan filter Reject unwanted emails with "user unknown" Automatic printout of new mails at the server |
no no no no no no no no |
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes |
| Mobile/external NetMail client
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Data rate for text file via GSM with 9600 bps Online compression of data transfer Full-duplex transfer (simult. send/receive) Continue transfer after connection break Unnecessary header lines not transferred Switch English/German at any time |
1 KB/s no no no no no |
2 KB/s yes yes yes yes yes |
NetMail consists of two main components - the client software which can be used in a LAN or also externally e.g. via GSM to read and write emails, and the gateway software running on a PC in your office. The LAN clients are not installed separately on each workstation but loaded over the network neighbourhood (autosync.exe) from the NetMail folder.
| Internet Provider |
--POP3-> <-SMTP- |
NetMail gateway PC | Clients | |||||
| Mailer mailer.exe |
-> <- |
Mail router gateway.exe |
-- | Transfer host32.exe |
-Modem/ISDN/TCP- |
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| - | - - - - - - - | - - - - -Network- - - - |
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| -- | SMS capisms.exe |
<- - -> SMS | and POP3/ SMTP clients |
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The gateway software consists of four programs. The mailer typically fetches all emails from a catch-all POP3 account at your Internet provider and sends your emails using SMTP. The mail router places the fetched mails into personal mailboxes, using the To/Cc/Bcc header lines. The SMS module allows sending and receiving SMS messages. The transfer module is only required on the server if mobile NetMail clients are used.
The NetMail client software is launched from a shared network drive and thus do not need a separate installation on each workstation. You can also use POP3/SMTP-based programs like Outlook, Thunderbird or smart phones in parallel.
The free NetMail Light can be used for up to three users (i.e. the part of your email addresses in front of @), but you can create as many alias names as you want, e.g. info, webmaster, postmaster and so on.
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 Windows client (English/German)
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The free NetMail Light is limited to 3 users and does not support a GSM modem for SMS.
Server
You will need administrative privileges for installing NetMail. Unpack
netmail.zip into an empty temporary folder like c:\Temp and launch SETUP. It
installs NetMail into another folder like c:\Shamrock\NetMail. Please click on
"Yes" if Windows asks if you really want to install it. The temporary folder can
be deleted later.
LAN clients
If you use NetMail clients on LAN workstations, you do
not need to install them separately. Simply launch
autosync.exe from the server's NetMail folder via the network neighbourhood.
For using SMTP/POP3 clients, enable the SMTP/POP3 ports in the server
configuration.
Mobile clients
Use SETUPM to install the mobile client on external PCs outside of your office
LAN.
NetMail can be uninstalled using the Windows control panel (Software - NetMail).
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Download - 8 MB, English/German. Some functions require that you have an own domain. Please also read the following paragraph "Installation in 10 minutes". Please note: NetMail cannot be used as a mail server for Outlook or similar programs since it comes with its own client software. |
First of all, you should create a catch-all POP3 account at your Internet service provider. All other POP3 accounts must either be deleted or redirected to the catch-all account.
On the gateway PC, simply follow these steps:
- Unpack NetMail.ZIP into an empty temporary folder, e.g. c:\Windows\Temp (not
applicable for CD).
- Launch the SETUP program, select English as language, and install NetMail e.g.
to c:\Shamrock\NetMail.
- For LAN clients, the gateway's hard disk (typically C:) must be accessible as
a network share (read+write).
- Launch the gateway configuration from the Windows start menu
(Programs/NetMail).
- Enter your own main domain, e.g. mydomain.com, and (if applicable) additional
domains.
- Create at least one user in the configuration program (username = address part
before @).
- Launch "Mailer" and "Mail router" using the windows start menu, they must run
always!
- Open the Mailer configuration menu and enter the settings for RAS, POP3, and
SMTP.
- If required at the server, you can start the NetMail client using the Windows
start menu.
- Select "Own email address" in the client configuration menu to choose a
username.
- For using a SMTP/POP3 client program, enable the SMTP+POP3
ports in the server configuration.
In the gateway PC, at least mailer.exe (Mailer) and gateway.exe (Mail router)
must run all the time.
System tray of gateway PC:
R=mail router (gateway.exe), M=mailer (mailer.exe)
For using the NetMail client on the other
network workstations, please follow these steps:
- Create a desktop link to autosync.exe on the server, e.g. to \\server\c\shamrock\netmail\autosync.exe
- Click on this link to launch the NetMail client program.
- Select "Own email address" in the client configuration menu to choose a
username.
Some free add-on utilities are available for NetMail:
SMTP server for mail reception (ZIP
16 K, doc)
Terminal server support for popup program (ZIP
27 K, doc)
DynDNS/RAS utility for IP updating and keep-alive (ZIP
12 K, doc)
RSS feed reader with HTML output (ZIP
24 K, doc)
RS2File for sending RS232 data as email (ZIP
60 K, doc)
