Technical Paper on Using an IP Based Respoitory Mailbox System vs a Browser with E-mail.
Web browsers use http and ftp to provide universal access to text and binary files.
In general these files are posted on the corporate intranet and are accessible to all corporate intranet users. E-mail programs use SMTP and MIME to allow users to send and receive messages and files to and from other specific users. The FastSync Mailbox System was initially released by CTI in 1996 as an update to its DOS based FastSync Mailbox system. The latter has been standardized by numerous operations for the transfer and administration of large binary files in DOS environments using bisynchronous 3780 technology. Mailbox Clients run on each user's desktop and provide access to the Post Office over either the Internet, over the corporate Intranet connection, or over its own exclusive connection.