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I’m pleased to announce that an improved version of ArchiveVault,  version 1.2,   is now available for download.

The following features have been added in this release:

• MD5 integrity checksum support:  If a message on the disk has changed, the admin will be alerted.
  
• Multiple-User support: Delegate control to index/view/search archived messages for a specified domain or email.
• Auto-Update for version upgrades: Keeps the software version current without requiring the application of a patch.

For existing customers,   we have easy setup instructions online here:   ArchiveVault Traffic Tap Instructions

ArchiveVault 1.2 is available to existing customers via the Upgrade Page,  so it is easy to add ArchiveVault.
For new customers without an Atmail account,  you can purchase ArchiveVault with Atmail on order.atmail.com,  or as a separate software package here:

Order ArchiveVault 1.2:     http://atmail.com/order-archivevault-software.php 

The ArchiveVault Software is the same version from our appliance product, is now available to download and install on your own server for a one-time fee.

See the online demo of ArchiveVault to demonstrate the Web user-interface and user-experience. Example email messages from Enron are included in the online demo to demonstrate the importance of a company archiving policy.

Whether complying with legal discovery requests, government regulations, or simply as a record-keeping measure, ArchiveVault allows your organization to accomplish these essential tasks with minimal effort and expense.

ArchiveVault supports any existing Atmail deployments, or open-source solutions as qMail, Postfix, Exim and more. Exchange and Lotus Notes support is included for Enterprise needs.

For pricing and ordering details see the online order-form or discuss your company requirements with an ArchiveVault sales representative

After over 9 months in development, the new Atmail 6 platform is now available for BETA. We are opening a beta for selected customers and interested users to test-drive the new version, send us feedback, and help to improve the product for release.

Atmail 6 Moto

More than just an Exchange Replacement for Linux - Built using open standards, Web 2.0 enhanced, design for usability, speed and performance. Providing users an enhanced messaging experience. Our aim is to arm ISPs and business users the tools to do messaging better.

What will Atmail 6 deliver?

• Unified Webmail interface - An advanced Webmail platform built for usability
• Built using the best Zend and jQuery have to offer
• Open standards for Calendaring - Atmail provides a CalDAV client/server, open standards, open calendaring
• Push support - Mail, Address-book and Calendar data
• Browser friendly - IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome
• Groupware made easy
• Mail threads, conversations, improved address-book integration
• Faster backend with Exim and Dovecot for the server edition

Register your interest for the beta program, we are hand selecting users on a daily basis and want to work closely with our beta users.

Screenshots for the new Mail interface ( 3pane and 2pane options available )

New Webmail - 2 or 3 pane available, mail threading & conversations included

Improved Address-book - DnD support, vCard import/export, Push support to iPhone

A production Atmail 6.0 version is due to be released on 15th June 2009 for download and upgrading existing versions. Stay tuned for more updates on the Beta program.

The Atmail office in Kurrajong, Australia has just been fitted out with a new 1kW grid-invert solar array, upgradable to 2kW. With help from Glen Morris from Solarquip, the Atmail office in Kurrajong is on track to be fully sustainable for our power needs.

Glen Morris and Ben Duncan next to the new solar array

Our aim is to offset all of Atmail’s power emissions by generating our own energy on each of our offices worldwide by the end of 2009. Australia is perfect for solar electricity, burning coal is just backwards for the 21st Century.

With the event of business cutting costs in wake of a global recession, we do hope companies will commit to the environment and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Our development team has been hard at work over the last 3 months, taking a lot of feedback from clients and giving Atmail a good going over! With the focus on hardening the code and cleaning up rather than just pushing in more features (though we still added a little sprinkle of important feature improvements) the result is the most feature rich yet solid Atmail release to date.

As a promotion we are offering all expired clients a 20% discount on the Atmail upgrade until the 2nd April. This is the perfect opportunity to upgrade your Atmail system to the latest version and rollout the enhancements to your users.

Here’s a short list of improvements we’ve made:

• Support for recurring shared calendar events
• Improvements to shared and recurring calendar event handling
• Improved timezone and date handling
• Improved MIME parsing
• Added support for handling (bad) MIME messages with non-unique MIME boundaries
• Improved entropy generation for creating PGP keys
• Added Chinese language support
• Improved attachment filename discovery
• Support CID images with application/octet-stream content type
• Image parts with Content-ID headers but no related image tag in the html part are now rendered as attached images
• Improved handling of multibyte characters in spell checker
• Improved WebSync (Outlook to Atmail syncing)
• Fixed issues introduced with Firefox 3.0.7

View the full changelog for more information, or checkout the live online demo

If you are a current Atmail client we highly recommend you take advantage of the improvements and upgrade to this milestone. If you are looking for an affordable, feature-rich, solid and professionally supported webmail solution for your company, institution, government department, small business etc, then this latest Atmail release is the best yet and a must for your short-list.

Introducing the new ArchiveVault appliance! Enterprise class email-archiving at an affordable price. Appliances are available in 1TB, 4TB or 8TB options.

This is the latest addition to the Atmail product family, and is built on the new Atmail-6 codebase and Zend framework. Our development team are proud to announce the new product, and to demonstrate the new Atmail-6 codebase with a working product.

Email archiving is becoming standard policy for modern companies. The implementation of a sane and solid email archiving policy will save your company time, money and resources in the long run. A system with a built-in recording, logging and a clear path for recovering your data is required. ArchiveVault is easily searchable, which will allow systems administrators and company executives to breathe easier.

The ArchiveVault product can help satisfy all legal and compliance issues for your organization, and is designed to integrate with your existing mail-server infrastructure ( Postfix, qMail, Exim, Sendmail, Exchange, Atmail and more supported )

To test-drive the new system see the online-demo at:

http://archivedemo.atmail.com/

The test environment includes all Enron emails which have been released into the public domain. This will demonstrate the importance of an email-archiving policy for your organization, for compliance, auditing, and fraud prevention. We welcome you to search the ArchiveVault interface to find Enron employee’s fraudulent activities.

For more details please see the product page at:

http://atmail.com/archivevault/

I’m pleased to report that the new Atmail Alliance Partner Program is online:

http://atmail.com/partners.php

The new Partner Program is more than an upgrade from our previous reseller program,  it’s a fresh approach to distribution of Atmail products.    Taking into consideration the various types of businesses wishing to partner with us and sell Atmail software and hardware appliances,   we’ve designed the new program to allow our partners to make a significant profit with ease.

Discounts range from 15% - 35%

There are 3 Levels of membership available to partners:

• Level 1 - VAR
• Level 2 - SAAS
• Distributor - Reseller of Software + Hardware Appliances

Why Join the Alliance?   What do you get?

• Partner Portal Access - Easy ordering and organization of sales resources.
• Volume Discounts
• Listing on Atmail.com - Your entry in our list of partners will help funnel sales prospects to your site.
• Optional Consulting by our knowledgeable development staff.
• Access to Atmail Marketing Materials
• Advance Product Information
• Training and Certification (Distributor only) - 1 Day Training in key aspects of Atmail implementation available in Sydney, Australia or Idaho, USA. Distributor earns Atmail Certification.
• Lead Generation (Distributor only) - We forward sales leads originating in your region.
• Evaluation Units (Distributor only) - Up to 3 appliances can be purchased “at cost” for use as evaluation units.
• SVN Repository Access  - Stay up to date on Atmail’s development, post dev tickets for priority bug fixes, and give feedback directly to the Atmail development team.

For more details,  including cost of membership and to sign up:

http://atmail.com/partners.php

It’s been an exhilarating 24 days on the road with the Atmail mobile office. All systems are operational, and less then 10% of the journey has been made.

Australia provides breathtaking scenery, the vastness of this country is overwhelming. From remote coastal National parks, to dense world-heritage rainforests, this country is like no other. It’s a privilege to have the opportunity to showcase the Virtual office and be connected to clients and the Atmail development team so easily.

Quick status:

• Driven approx 2,000km’s
• 60 watt solar panel and 100aH battery have proven themselves, no issues with power
• Internet coverage via NextG mobile-network is working almost everywhere visited, from National Parks, to remote coastal villages, and into “the middle of nowhere” in Northern NSW and Queensland
• The 4×4 “Carcam” eye has taken over 1,000 photos of random locations while driving - My personal favorite
• After the devastating fires that ravaged Australia, currently stuck in Northern NSW in a flood declared area. Insane.

Keep tuned, the new Atmail mobile office website will be online by the end of Feb. Till then, the open (wet) road awaits!

We’re pleased to announce a new, better version of the Hosted Atmail program. The new pricing matrix and order page can be found here:

http://atmail.com/order/hosted/

What’s New:

• Hosted Appliance - we now offer the Atmail Appliance to hosted customers whose needs include a dedicated server, hosted by Atmail.
• Billing Terms - Choose billing per month or on a yearly cycle. A 20% discount is included for pre-purchases of one year.
• Custom User License - Specify your own license for the number of users you expect to support.
• Push Support - Enable iPhone, Windows Mobile and Activesync devices to push and synchronize mail and address-book data.

For further details, please see the Hosted Atmail order page, or email our sales team via the online form

Ben Duncan, the founder of Atmail has embarked on a 6 month journey around the entire of Australia, in a specially modified 4WD Land Rover to demonstrate the ability to work online and maintain a virtual presence using the latest technologies.
The trip will take the Atmail mobile office into the far reaching parts of the Australian desert, across the coastline of Australia, into the red-center and across to the lush rainforests of tropical North-Queensland. The Atmail mobile office will be online using the latest BGAN Satellite and NextG mobile internet, to keep the pulse alive.

Using a custom version of the Atmail mail-server for remote connections, the 4WD runs it’s own SMTP server, with delivery of messages via an SMTP smarthost. The technology in the 4WD includes:

• Linux eeePC used for the car Atmail server, SMTP and Web proxy
• Telstra NextG mobile router
• Linksys Wifi device
• 60W solar panel connected to a 100ah battery
• Dual battery isolator for charging the battery bank, and solar regulator to charge the battery when the 4WD is off.
• Live streaming CarCam, updates an image every 5 minutes from the mobile-office “eye” embedded on the roof
• Uniden GPS for navigation
• Roof tent for sleeping
• Macbook Pro and VMware used for development and SVN environments
• Full kitchen, gas and storage within car

From within the 4WD mobile office, Ben Duncan will help co-ordinate the new Atmail 6 release and upcoming products for the company into 2009. The car includes a full development environment and SVN snapshots.

Australia provides breathtaking scenery and wide open-spaces to find inspiration and product R&D ideas you would normally struggle to find at a regular city office, no matter how much coffee!

With over 16,000km’s left on the journey, keep tuned to http://atmailmobileoffice.com/ for a soon to be released web-site and gallery showcasing the trip, blog, and technology behind the adventure!