MailEnable™ is proud to announce the latest direction for the mail server product: a fully featured Outlook integration component for mail, calendaring, contacts, and collaboration. The new MAPI solution provides complete integration between the MailEnable™ server and Microsoft's Outlook email and office productivity client. Premium Edition also includes all the value of Enterprise Edition.
Supporting all the rich features offered in Outlook, including appointment scheduling, free and busy status, Public Folders, and access to shared account resources, this offers businesses all the power they need for efficient coordination and communication. Read on for more information about the various features you will enjoy when you install the MailEnable™ MAPI Outlook integration module, beyond the core messaging features already available through IMAP, POP and other services.
Users of Outlook will likely be familiar with the features for personal calendaring, contact management, and task tracking, and MailEnable™ Webmail users will also be aware of these same features supported through the webmail client. Now with the MAPI connector, these two features are connected, bringing your server hosted calendar to your Outlook client on your desktop computer, along with your contact and task lists.
When you are scheduling a meeting with a group of people, it can be difficult to find a time that works for everyone, but the MAPI solution makes it as easy as possible. The MailEnable™ server can communicate with Outlook to present to you a view of the free and busy status of all the attendees, so you can find a time slot where everyone is free, without having to go through the tedious, frustrating and lengthy process of sending out the invitations, waiting for the responses, suggesting alternative times, and rescheduling repeatedly.
If you are familiar with the collaboration features already available in MailEnable™ through the webmail client, you would expect that to be supported in the new MAPI connector as well. You would not be disappointed. It is easy to connect to a shared resource, such as another user's calendar or entire mailbox to which they have granted you access. You can also set the sharing permissions for your own mailbox resources from within Outlook.
This is particularly useful for viewing another person's shared calendar. Outlook supports different ways of viewing multiple calendars simultaneously, including viewing them side by side, or overlayed, with different colouring to identify the different calendars.
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