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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…

E-mail is predominant nowadays but still fax is a must for many organizations. Even though we don’t have to keep using traditional paper fax, specially with so many fax-spammers around — the solution would be Fax-to-Email combined with Email-to-Fax.

Fax-to-Email: just define incoming fax number among available phone or DID numbers and the email address you want to receive all faxes and that’s it — this fax account allows you to receive faxes without having a fax machine; the received faxes are converted to email PDF attachments and delivered to the email address you choose.

Email-to-Fax: just define a special email account in your local domain and send an email with the document you want to be faxed as a PDF attachment and the recipient fax number as a subject — this fax account allows you to send faxes without having a fax machine (*)

(*) an internal technicality as a reminder: on the outgoing call rules you want to use for sending fax, you have include fax device among the allowed under access control

Since my earlier years on the IT profession I had the idea that more than 50% of IT knowledge is based on proper understanding and use of Acronyms — let’s share a few and keep here a record of those we are using throughout this web site — click on read more below for details

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