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This is a real scenario I went through while writing a proposal for a OneBox IT implementation.
I won’t mention any names just for discretion regarding my clients and respect to other suppliers, but figures are real.

I won’t say the edgeBox is the only or not even the best solution to save while improving, but it’s fair to say that in this [very common] case, the improvement cost of implementing an edgeBox solution were offset by far with the savings created.

Just have a look at this simple table and consider that a complete edgeBox deployment including … everything, was about 398 CAD a month under a leasing model.

Even though the value added on terms of IT improvements are by far above the cost of implementation, in this case they are getting all the benefit for free and holding some extra saving — that’s a sweat deal, isn’t it?

IMAP is one of those rare and old beauties, a few have used at least among my peers. IMAP is in an alternative to POP3 protocol commonly used to retrieve messages from the server to an email client application like Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution and others.

I won’t go here over the details but just outline some of its advantages on the user’s perspective

• messages stay on the Server
• mail boxes can be accessed by several users simultaneously
• flags like read, replied, important, etc stay on the Server
• easy to backup from just one location on the Server
• client program and local information problems are irrelevant
• download just header and when read, save a local copy
• using mix format instead of mbox/maildir makes index and storage optimum
• files size is optimal for easy search and backup — no more huge PST files

When I learned all this, I only regret it wasn’t long before, Read more…