| Features |
Description |
Basic Web Mail |
Pro Mail |
Business Mail |
E-Mail Storage /
Quota support |
Configurable global or per-user disk quotas. Customer has flexibility to assign mail space to individual email i.d. as per the requirements. The Email Quota storage is as per the package description on the home page. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
My Contacts /
Address Book |
Personal Email Addresses with other contact details such as address, telephone numbers, etc. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Tasks / To Do List |
Stores additional information such as % complete, status, total work, actual work, mileage, billing information and can define multiple priorities. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Calendar, Address,
Synchronization |
Contacts from the Global Address List (shared company directory) can be added to personal contacts. Contacts in Exchange Server can also be directly synchronized to Outlook Client, Outlook Mobile and Outlook Web Access. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
Scheduling meetings |
Exchange Server includes rich scheduling features, including personal, group, and resource scheduling, which integrate with e mail, contacts, and tasks. Sender can verify which recipients have accepted, partially accepted, or declined meeting requests. Automatic updation of responses / alerts. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Offline Access |
The company directories are shared and centrally maintained in Active Directory services and can be downloaded to Outlook clients for offline access. Default POP3 and IMAP4 systems don't offer access to centralized contacts and address books. |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Attachment Size |
Can send and receive e-mails with specified attachment size |
10 MB |
10 MB |
20 MB |
Anti-Virus /
Anti-Spam |
Mail setup is hosted in extremely secure environment with separate DMZ area and is monitored, managed by dedicated MSOC 24*7. Perimeter security includes Firewall, IDS, Anti-Virus, and Anti-Spam protection. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access through
POP3 client |
E-mail accounts can be configured on a POP3 clients like Outlook express, MS Outlook etc. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Search through
mails, contacts &
attachments. |
Enables way to search the entire outlook for mails, contacts and even attachments with a very minimal information for the system to search and fetch items. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Web Access (OWA) |
When you have already configured your mail account on a MS outlook client, you can still access you e-mail from outside of the office through "Outlook Web Acces". You would be able to access the mails that are stored on the mail server. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Set Filters &
Preferences |
Advanced filters with multiple conditions and actions. Unlimited filters can be defined checking sender field, recipient fields, to field, cc field, subject field, if listed in junk senders, If one or more rules match, notify to an alert, forward the message. |
mails,
contacts & attachments. |
No (Only
on client) |
Yes |
Admin Panel /
Control Panel |
A very powerful method of
managing the mail server and mail boxes through a dedicated and secure web portal. |
Web Access
(OWA) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Collaboration Features |
Sharing of
documents,
folders & calendar |
Sharing of specific folders (Mail) documents, and calendars among different users. Users can share their e-mails with other people by defining unlimited guest accounts with configurable read/write/delete permissions. Also there is a way of delegating users with various level of permissions. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Secure Outlook
connections |
Outlook and Exchange Server support Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), enabling users to digitally sign and encrypt e-mails and attachments. |
No |
No |
Yes |
Multiple Aliases /
Multiple profiles |
Creating Aliases for an email account such as - xyz@abc.com ,gm.mum.xyz@abc.com, etc. Users can define multiple profiles with different names and e-mail addresses. |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Automatic mail
forwarding |
User configurable message forwarding to external accounts. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Autoresponse |
User configurable auto responders with dynamic tags. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Categorized contacts |
One can categorize the contacts as separate list or group. This could classify a contact like official, personal, etc. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Contact Exchange |
Supports sending contacts to other people and importing contacts attached to e-mail messages. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Outlook Delegate access |
This feature enables other users to manage designated components of your mailbox on your behalf. For example, a manager can permit an administrator to manage his or her calendar. In POP3 and IMAP systems, you would have to enable complete mailbox access by sharing your logon information. In a POP3service, there are additional complications because mails are removed from the server after it get download to the client. |
No |
No |
Yes |