MailRelayer makes your Outlook email and contacts accessible from anywhere on the Internet. You can manage your mail using almost any email client, (including those on Palms and Pocket PCs) or any web browser (via a WebMail gateway). MailRelayer enables you to keep up with your office mail from home or while you are on the road. Optionally, you can also choose to authorize other people to read your mail by creating a password protected account for them. MailRelayer is a product not a service, it runs as a local IMAP server on your PC, that uniquely interacts with your Outlook mail folders. The software can only work while your computer is connected to the Internet, preferably with an always-on Cable or DSL connections and offers support for several dynamic DNS services. The software requires some technical understanding of IP addresses, so it may not be suitable for novice users.
What you need to gain remote access for your email
MailRelayer is designed so that you do not need any special program on the computer where you access your email. All you need is either a Web browser or an email client.
Web Browsers
Any up-to-date Web browser will do. And it can be a Web browser running on any kind of computer, not necessarily another Windows system. Using a Web browser enables tremendous flexibility: you can retrieve your email from an Internet cafe, from a colleague's PC, even from an airplane! And thanks to MailRelayer's support for one-time passwords, you can confidently read your mail from a public Internet terminal without fear of anyone stealing your account credentials.
When you use a Web browser you need to liaise with MailRelayer using a IMAP-to-WebMail gateway. Several of these are discussed in the product's documentation. Some of them offer a free service while others require a paid subscription.
Email Clients
When you regularly access your email from the same remote computer - say from your notebook or home PC - you will do better to use an email client. You can use any email client that supports IMAP (almost all the popular ones do). You do not have to use the same client as on your base PC - indeed you don't even need to use a Windows client. MailRelayer's documentation lists recommended clients and discusses their merits.
Pocket PCs and Palms
If you have a Pocket PC then you can use MailRelayer with the email client that is built in to the unit. If you have a Palm, Treo (or similar) then you will need to equip it a suitable email client; our recommended choice is Palm's VersaMail.
Mobile Phones
Most contemporary mobile phones include IMAP-capable email clients including the Apple iPhone.
Sprint PCS Business Connection
Sprint PCS Business Connection uses nothing other than IMAP to retrieve email. So, if you subscribe to the Personal Edition of this service, you can use it with MailRelayer. And this is true no matter when device you use it on.
What MailRelayer does is turn your own PC into an email server. But instead of acting just as a staging point for new messages, it serves up all your accumulated email. Gigabytes and gigabytes in some cases. And MailRelayer does this using one of the same Internet-standard protocols, namely IMAP. Which means that all you need to read it is an IMAP client software or a suitable Web site.
Now, you might ask, "Could this not be dangerous?" Is there not a risk in opening my PC to the outside world?
Well there is always a tiny risk inherent in doing so but it's truly very small and a negligible price to pay for the benefits.
Let's look at why. First, MailRelayer makes your email and only your email remotely accessible. There is no way that even the most determined miscreant could use MailRelayer to read anything else stored on your computer.
Second, access to MailRelayer is password-protected. And your password is normally not sent across the Internet. Instead encryption is used with the password as a key making it virtually impossible for even a determined snooper to figure out what that password is.
And third, the security systems used are all just part of the standard Internet email system. If you don't worry about people reading your email from your regular email server then you should have no reason to worry about their reading your email from MailRelayer. The license of this email software is Free Trial Software, the price is $39.00, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of MailRelayer for Outlook, you can buy this email software.