M+NetMail was an
ISP
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-grade
E-mail package by
Messaging Architects
Messaging Architects (MA) is a Canadian software company specializing in e-mail products. Their flagship product is Netmail, an integrated email management platform.
History
Launched in March 1995 as ChronoFAX, the company was a distributor of c ...
. It was designed to deliver scalable messaging and calendaring services, using Internet-standard protocols (e.g.
IMAP,
iCalendar
The Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) is a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, an ...
,
POP
Pop or POP may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* Pop music, a musical genre Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Albums
* ''Pop'' (G ...
,
SMTP), across a large enterprise, or to a large group of users who are not particularly associated (for example, the user population of a typical ISP). The original name for the product, when owned by
Novell
Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare.
Under the lead ...
, was Novell Internet Messaging System (NIMS). Messaging Architects showcased NetMail on its ''MyRealBox'' website, this service was discontinued on June 1, 2011.
In late February 2007, Novell sold the Netmail source code and brand name to Messaging Architects,
which has since release a new version. This new version came with several long-awaited fixes along with a new "web 2.0" web mail client.
Since 2014 uses the brand name to deliver software solution. Netmail EMEA is as a formally subsidiary from Messaging Architects (called later Netmail/NetGovern) and now part of Ipro Tech.
Positioning
NetMail is not designed as a group collaboration software, such as
Novell GroupWise,
IBM Lotus Notes /
Domino, or
Microsoft Exchange Server. It is not positioned to compete with those products.
Design
M+NetMail is designed around open standards, including
LDAP,
PKCS,
iCal,
POP3,
IMAP4
In computing, the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection. IMAP is defined by .
IMAP was designed with the goal of per ...
,
SSL SSL may refer to:
Entertainment
* RoboCup Small Size League, robotics football competition
* ''Sesame Street Live'', a touring version of the children's television show
* StarCraft II StarLeague, a Korean league in the video game
Natural language ...
, and
S/MIME. Because it is standards-based, there is no "native" client. It instead works with any standards-based IMAP4, POP3 or iCal client. The web interface is likewise usable by most web browsers.
Platforms
M+NetMail's server components run atop a variety of platforms, letting the NetMail customer choose the platform most appropriate to their environment. In contrast, some competing products attempt to lock their customers into a single platform. NetMail components are available for
SUSE
SUSE ( , ) is a German-based multinational open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for enterprise. It is the developer of SUSE Linux Ent ...
and
Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.
Red Hat has become ass ...
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
,
Novell NetWare v5.1 and later,
Novell Open Enterprise Server (in both its OES-Linux and OES-NetWare versions), and
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
platforms.
See also
Bongo (software)
Hula was an open source mail and calendar project based on open standards announced on February 15, 2005, by Novell.
History
Hula was an open-source effort sponsored by Novell and developed by Dave Camp and Joe Gasiorek, amongst others.
H ...
References
External links
Messaging Architects Home Page
Groupware
Message transfer agents
Novell software
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