And control over access rights means that it can be available to all or kept private, as appropriate. If a contact is not yet in the database, OfficeTalk can create the entry. Internet mail that is easy to implement and can be an integral part of the security of your system OfficeTalk's Internet mail service provides a gateway through which everyone's Internet mail is sent and received. The gateway can be on any single PC on the network, including an NT Server. Typically this will be the mail server at your Internet Service Provider, with the connection being made via dial-up, ISDN or a direct connection.
Setup is simple, using a simple tabbed dialog.
In this simplest of implementations anti-virus software running on the gateway PC or Server has proved successful in trapping viruses, thus avoiding potential problems. Comprehensive functionality includes connection scheduling, junk mail filtering, filtering by size of sent and received messages, virtual mail boxes and control of access rights to a user's or contact's mail. A large proportion of the viruses created in recent times specifically target Microsoft Outlook, with a view to harnessing specific features within Outlook to cause havoc. OfficeTalk has a completely different architecture to Microsoft Outlook and so is not susceptible to viruses that are specifically targeted at Outlook. Alternatively, OfficeTalk can act as a MAPI client for Microsoft and other corporate mail servers.