| Use
your existing software |
We support both POP
and IMAP for incoming email and therefore
we support any email client that recognizes
these protocols. If you're unfamiliar
with what the difference is between
POP and IMAP, then please look at
the next subsection where we'll explain
this. Some of the more popular email
clients we support are Outlook, Outlook
Express, Windows Mail (Vista), Thunderbird,
Mac Mail, Entourage and Eudora.
The difference
between POP and IMAP
The difference between POP and IMAP
is where your emails and mail folders
are stored. With POP3, you essentially
download your emails from our servers,
take them off our server and then
put them into your own local mail
folders on your computer. They are
not left on GetaMail.net. With IMAP,
your emails and mail folders are kept
on our servers, so when you access
your email account via IMAP, you'll
be looking at your emails remotely.
The advantage with POP3 is that you
don't have to be online to check your
emails. Some businesses would also
rather keep their data on their local
computers, so POP3 is a better option.
With IMAP, your emails are stored
on our servers and therefore allow
you to easily access your emails from
any Internet connection worldwide.
Your emails will also be backed up
regularly and be stored on high-quality
servers, making it reliable and efficient.
The downside to IMAP is that you will
need more diskspace with us (although
1GB will in most cases be ample) than
with POP3 and you'll always need to
be connected to the Internet to retreieve
any of your emails.
For information on
how to configure your account in your
e-mail client, please refer to our
support
section.
Our webmail client
is one of our slickest features. You'll
find it very easy to use because we've
based it around how email clients
work. It's the perfect companion to
keep up to date with all of your important
communication data. Below are several
screenshots of our webmail client.
One of the other
useful features of our webmail client
is AJAX technology. This essentially
allows parts of a page to be refreshed
without having to reload the whole
page again. The result is a large
increase in speed and when combined
with a few other technologies, we
can offer functionality like drag
'n drop and right click menus.
| Minimize
spam and viruses |
GetaMail.net's only
business is email and that's important
because it means we have the resources
to put into fighting spam and viruses.
Our spam settings are very customizable,
with various options include:
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Control what happens
to spam of different likelihood.
For example, delete anything automatically
that is marked as "Very likely
to be spam", but place anything
that is "Hard to tell"
in my spam folder. |
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Automatically delete virus infected
emails. |
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Control your own blacklists
and whitelists. |
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Use Verification Response where
unknown senders are asked to verify
that they are a real person. |
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Automatic whitelisting of people
on your address books. |
E-mail on the go
is important for keeping in touch
and GetaMail.net has you covered in
a variety of ways:
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For those people
with IMAP access on their phones,
then checking your e-mail is very
simple. |
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For those who support POP3,
you can opt to leave a copy of
e-mails on the server so that
you can retrieve them from your
normal working computer when you're
back on it, but still see your
e-mails when on your mobile. |
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If you only have been issued
an e-mail address from your cell
phone provider (such as with older
Blackberry's), then you can create
a mail rule in GetaMail.net to
forward copies of new messages
on to your mobile device. |
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GetaMail.net also supports the
SyncML protocol (sync.GetaMail.net.com)
and therefore can sync your calendars,
contacts, tasks, notes and journal
between your GetaMail.net account
and mobile device. We also have
sync software available for Blackberry
users. |
GetaMail.net finally
has a mobile webmail interface. While
this interface is still being developed,
it can be useful for those who would
prefer to use a browser from their
phone. This interface can be accessed
at http://webmail.GetaMail.net.com/mobile
| Desktop
Notification Client |
The GetaMail.net
desktop notification client is
the best way to receive alerts
delivered to your desktop when
new mail arrives in one of your
folders. This utility not only
alerts you of new email but also
alerts for appointments, task
events, and other alerts sent
from users in your group or on
your friends list. |
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During setup of this utility you can
choose from one, a few, or all of your
email folders in which you wish to be
notified of new email. Additional features
will be forthcoming.
Up to 50MBs in attachment
size (including any encryption).
| Receive
your existing e-mail |
Most people these
days have more than one email mailbox.
With GetaMail.net, you can consolidate
them all into one account. It's easy
to setup too. Just enter the various
details of the server that you are
pulling from and we'll then check
for new e-mails to those accounts
and deliver them to your GetaMail.net
mailbox. You can then reply to these
e-mails as if you were sending from
that email account by using our Web
Identities utility.
We can also pull from some common
email sources, including Hotmail,
AOL, Earthlink, Mindspring, Juno and
virtually any POP3 or IMAP server.
| GetaMail.net
search folders enable you to
create custom mail folders whose
contents contain the results
of a pre-configured search that
is updated constantly.
In this example, there are
three search folders. One shows
all flagged mail, one shows
all unread mail, and one shows
all mail within the last week. |
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These folders make it easy to find mail
that is important to you. Any IMAP enabled
email client can view these search folders
as they appear to be just another IMAP
folder. This feature is unique to GetaMail.net
because of our superior IMAP technology.
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