InterMail is the only commercially available messaging server which can scale to support millions of mailboxes using Internet standard protocols. The following list of features and benefits articulates the strengths of InterMail.
Feature | Benefit |
Natively supports Internet standard protocols including SMTP, MIME, POP3, IMAP4, and DNS | Full fidelity electronic messaging communication over the Internet without gateways or connectors. |
Feature | Benefit |
Distributed server technology | InterMail is distributed, allowing the different components of the system to run on separate machines for optimal load balancing and scaling. This also allows hardware to be added to the system as the user base expands. |
Multi-threaded servers | Performance improves as system CPU resources grow. |
High message throughput | InterMail can handle large numbers of messages, both incoming and outgoing, during peak activity times. Users will never experience noticeable delays in message delivery. |
High performance directory service | Very fast lookups for user mailbox location information |
Load balancing between redundant servers | Gain higher performance from the same cluster of system resources. If one of the servers fails, the others take over the load. |
Feature | Benefit |
Relational database and journaling file system for message storage | High reliability and data integrity-messages will never be lost. |
Online backup and recovery | Highly reliable messaging backbone-no downtime is required and all message data is recoverable. If a disk crash occurs, backup data is readily available and service continues. |
Failover mechanism | If any hardware fails, backup hardware takes over and service continues. |
Tolerant of Internet outages and non-standard message formats | Resilience to the real world anomalies that exist on the Internet. |
Feature | Benefit |
Capacity monitoring tools | Maintain performance at peak levels by observing ahead of time that part of the system is reaching its capacity. |
Troubleshooting and error management utilities | If a problem should arise, tools are in place to quickly resolve it, maximizing availability of system and message throughput. |
Feature | Benefit |
Commercially developed and supported software-not a port of public domain code | Can be reliably deployed for high-demand, mission-critical messaging applications. |
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