The software let me access my email from anywhere in the world via a browser, but I also found that WebMail was more than a simple POP3 and SMTP solution. WebMail can provide you with a variety of solutions to your remote-email needs because of its flexibility. For example, the software lets your traveling workers access their email accounts regardless of their platforms, as long as they have access to a browser. You define the email servers to connect to and the user accounts to let through. By simply knowing the correct URL for your WebMail servers, you can let your remote-office users sign in to the corporate email system with a few points and clicks.
Users can download and locally execute email attachments as needed.
Users will appear as LAN-based email users just like everyone else. Because of Web browsers' ubiquitous presence and email's popularity, WebMail provides you with a number of solutions. If you're responsible for getting email connectivity to as many people as possible, in as many locations as possible, you owe it to yourself to look into WebMail. Having implemented both OWA and WebMail, I prefer WebMail because of its multiplatform capabilities and setup ease. Reprinted from Summer 1999 Windows NT Magazine .