It's also designed to address the unique management and integration issues service providers face by giving them a hosted messaging package that is extremely scalable and reliable, leverages Internet security standards and is easy to manage across leading platforms. The fact that Novell Internet Messaging System was able to make use of our existing hardware and software infrastructure was a huge asset. Novell Internet Messaging System completely replaced our Unix Sendmail servers, gave us a WebMail interface, added security to prevent relaying and significantly reduced the 'spam mail' we have to deal with. Users now have the ability to define processing rules that can act on any or all incoming messages to automatically copy them, move them to another folder or delete them based on the sender, recipients, message subject, body text and other parameters. Novell Internet Messaging System includes a list server that can accommodate millions of subscribers.
Subscribers can then receive daily postings on their topic of interest from other users.
The Novell Internet Messaging System list server increases a service provider's portfolio of value-added services. Success in the service provider market is no longer determined by basic offerings such as Internet access. A key competitive advantage for the Novell Internet Messaging System over other hosted messaging packages is its tight integration with eDirectory. This centralized management allows service providers to truly grow their business by simplifying business processes. Additionally, eDirectory provides an easy integration point for other Net services software, beyond e-mail messaging, that will be included in future versions of Novell Internet Messaging System.