Email - Features and Benefits

Anti-Virus Protection Viruses spread through email can cause billions of dollars in lost data and productivity. With new virus threats being discovered every week, you need email protection that's always up-to-date. Virus protection is a standard feature for all our customers.

Any Network Some providers only let you access your email from within their network or charge you additional for the privilege of using a competing network. With Original Image you can access your email via POP3, IMAP or WebMail from anywhere on the Internet and from any network. Change to the best value ISP at anytime without the pain of moving your mail accounts too.

Enterprise-Class Hardware Carrier-Class Hardware is in a league of its own. We use an infrastructure that a company is not going to recreate in their enterprise.

Firewall and Security Redundant firewalls screen all network traffic. We have regular monitoring of network ports and firewalls, system access restriction, 24x7 surveillance, and security best practices.

Full Backups Original Image email has full backups with redundant storage for all mailboxes.

IMAP, POP, and SMTP Use your favorite email program with our POP and IMAP services. POP is great for users on a single computer; all your messages are downloaded to your email program's inbox. IMAP gives incredible flexibility for those who use more than one computer and want to have the latest copy of their email wherever they are. With IMAP, all email is backed up on our servers. Our SMTP services give you access to send email from email software without having to worry about using the network approved SMTP server.

Mailboxes All of our mailboxes come with web access that allows each mailbox owner the ability to create their own folders and set their own preferences for vacation and out of office responses. All our service packages include the ability to use your own desktop email application like Outlook and Apple Mail.

Secure Data Center Your service is hosted within a carrier-class data center on an OC-48 backbone, supported 24x7 with highly trained staff and physical protection including redundant HVAC air filtration, water-free fire suppression, UPS power protection, and diesel generator backups.

Spam Protection To help you filter out any spam that comes to your inbox, we offer SpamShield Pro. SpamShield Pro automatically blocks email from senders who send bulk mail that is harmful to the system and has personalized options that keep even more spam out of your inbox. SpamShield Pro works with our POP and IMAP services allowing you to see your spam folder without having to log in to your Web Mail. SpamShield Features:

• Intelligent monitors ban specific IP addresses where spam originates.
• Reject bogus returned messages.
• Adjust the criteria that SpamShield Pro uses to identify spam.
• Automatically send spam to a folder of your choice.
• Block offensive graphics, and bugs used by spammers to track your activity.
• Works with popular email programs such as Outlook, Apple Mail, Netscape, Eudora and others.
• Whitelist trusted email addresses or entire domains.
• Instantly turn your Approved Senders list into a greenlist.
• Blacklist and bounce messages from spammers.
• Quickly Block or Approve Senders in Web Mail.
• Sort messages in Web Mail based on their likelihood to be spam.

Storage All new mailboxes come with an generous 1GB storage.

Web-based Administration Easy Web-based Administration tools to add and manage multiple email users and alias's on our larger accounts.

Web Mail All of our mailboxes come with Web access from virtually any computer connected to the Internet. Our robust Web Mail features include email notification, folders and sub folders, address book, email forwarding, HTML email capability, account status reminder, message search, aliases, and reply addresses.