June 1, 2008 will bring a close to the support and availability of the AtMail Server for the Windows platform. We will honor any existing support contract for the most recent Windows version of AtMail (currently AtMail 4.51 perl) to the end of it’s term. The online documentation and support pages will continue to be available for our customers that wish to continue to use the Windows version without support contracts.

After a great deal of consideration, the AtMail team has decided to focus it’s development efforts on the Linux platform and it’s appliance offering. Our support staff will be available to assist in any existing clients that are interested in migrating to the Linux build and we will be running a promotion on our appliance as we phase this out.

We will continue to develop and release the client version of AtMail for Windows and encourage anyone interested in using AtMail Server in a windows environment to contact our sales and support staff to discuss how AtMail can be implemented in your environment.

We have released the first revision of the Atmail Open edition. The minor patch includes a workaround for Winzip users when extracting and fixed the require path for missing modules which prevented installation on some systems.

Download direct from the Atmail Open website, for users upgrading simply extract the download into the existing Atmail Open directory. This will complete the upgrade, and you can reload the browser for the latest patch.

We are proud to announce the availability of AtMail Open! An Open-source AtMail edition based on the Apache 2.0 license, which is provided as a lightweight Ajax Webmail client with a focus on usability and simplicity.

The commercial version of AtMail will be further maintained and supported, and includes all the enhanced features such as Groupware, Calendaring, Advanced interface for IE/Firefox, POP3/maildir support, Mail-server edition, Webadmin, Outlook Synchronization and more. For more details view the comparison chart for the open-source edition and the commercial version.

We have released the open source edition of AtMail to further promote the usage of AtMail, offer users looking for “more” an upgrade path to the commercial AtMail version, and provide the open-source community a fresh look at Ajax Webmail.

Traditional desktop mail clients are in decline; the future of email is via a web interface. AtMail is poised to deliver the next generation in Open Source Webmail.

We welcome the feedback, to find out more about the project visit http://atmail.org/ and view the online demo.

Help us spread the word on the AtMail Open release by voting our article at slashdot and the digg release. And look forward to further news in 2008 regarding AtMail and our vision for the next level in email messaging.

I am pleased to let everyone know that Atmail will be exhibiting at CeBIT Australia from the 20th to the 22nd of May 2008.

CeBIT Australia is the leading Information & Communications Technology (ICT) event for the business marketplace in Australia.

This will be our 5th year exhibiting and look forward to meeting new and existing clients in person. If you are going to be there, please drop by and say “G’Day”

Atmail will be demonstrating many features and benefits of AtMail, including the Webmail Client and the AtMailServer Appliance, we will also be launching a surprising new product at CeBIT - stay tuned!

We are pleased to announce that we are increasing the default amount of storage offered on both of our hardware appliances. We are upgrading our Pro Appliance from 500G to 1T storage (this is two 1T drives in a mirrored RAID setup).

The Base Appliance will now have 500G storage (up from 250G and also in a mirrored RAID setup). This will not affect the retail cost of the appliance. Please visit our appliance page for more details.

In addition a new Dual Backup Mirror appliance is available as a new product. A combination of either the Base or Pro model used for mission critical environments that require a hot-standby appliance with all users and messages configured in a backup mirror.

After careful consideration, we have decided to rename the core team and company from CalaCode to: AtMail.

This change reflects our central focus, which is the @Mail software, and is intended to unify our image, matching the team which creates @Mail with the software itself (phonetically).

In the future, we may drop the “@” symbol from the product name. Any clients wishing to weigh in on this decision are encouraged to do so in the comments section below.