Modwest Community: Answers for topic "What are the most important features in an email service?" http://community.modwest.com Modwest Community: Answers for topic "What are the most important features in an email service?" en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:01:36 -0700 Copyright: (C) Modwest Community 30 High availability http://community.modwest.com/answer/121 http://community.modwest.com/answer/121 Ability to use the email client of your choice http://community.modwest.com/answer/123 http://community.modwest.com/answer/123 IMAP http://community.modwest.com/answer/244 http://community.modwest.com/answer/244 No delays http://community.modwest.com/answer/122 http://community.modwest.com/answer/122 Highly customizable spam detection http://community.modwest.com/answer/119 http://community.modwest.com/answer/119 Vast amounts of storage Google's evil scheme to take over the Internet marches onward. http://community.modwest.com/answer/308 http://community.modwest.com/answer/308 Spam detection that "just works" without manual tweaking http://community.modwest.com/answer/120 http://community.modwest.com/answer/120 Slick webmail interface http://community.modwest.com/answer/118 http://community.modwest.com/answer/118 No legitimate email detected as spam http://community.modwest.com/answer/124 http://community.modwest.com/answer/124 Hosted Exchange (or similiar) for my iPhone Affordable exchange hosting so my contacts, calenders, and email can all sync together via Outlook, Web Access, or iPhone. http://community.modwest.com/answer/335 http://community.modwest.com/answer/335 Secure mail access. I would strongly advise offering reliable SSL for POP3, IMAP and SMTP. Even though most e-mail goes in the clear it would be useful to lead the pack with the ability to securely send and receive e-mail. In addition offer the ability to have your servers do SSL SMTP between e-mail servers. http://community.modwest.com/answer/933 http://community.modwest.com/answer/933 Server-side content-processing For the purpose of placing messages in server-side (IMAP) folders as they arrive. You may also want to "pipe" certain messages to a script, or reject some automatically. Examples include Sieve and procmail. Modwest currently supports Sieve and now that there's a Thunderbird extension to manage Sieve rules, it's easy to manage. http://sieve.info/ http://community.modwest.com/answer/338 http://community.modwest.com/answer/338 mail protector Best spam protection currently available http://community.modwest.com/answer/336 http://community.modwest.com/answer/336 That it adheres to the Parkerian Hexad and is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious :) http://community.modwest.com/answer/129 http://community.modwest.com/answer/129