POP-based and IMAP-based solutions
are best suited for home and personal use where
requirements for data recoverability and security are
not high. |
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POP was designed to support offline mail processing.
With POP, normally e-mail messages are removed from the
server and put on the local POP client. This places the
data management and security responsibility in the hands
of the user. |
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IMAP is better, offering
both offline and online access, but like POP, IMAP does
not offer advanced collaboration features such as
scheduling and group scheduling, and task and contact
management. |
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Xgenplus also has
built-in support for non-desktop clients, such as Web
browser clients supporting: |
- Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML)
- Compressed HTML (CHTML)
- SMS and FAX (FOIP)
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XgenPlus also provides
synchronization support to Microsoft Windows-based
mobile devices / Smartphones etc, while basic POP-based
and IMAP-based solutions would need additional server
applications to support these clients. Support is
included in XgenPlus for POP and IMAP clients such as
Outlook Express as well. |
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Basic POP and IMAP e-mail
systems were never designed to include this broader,
richer set of collaborative capabilities, and for most
organizations, basic e-mail services are not good enough
to meet today?s competitive business environment, which
requires greater worker productivity enabled by rich
collaboration features.
For example, if an organization uses desktop client with
an e-mail server other than XgenPlus and requires group
scheduling, organizations would require a separate
scheduling application with the servers supporting POP
or IMAP infrastructure.
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