Syncing Outlook Classic Email, Calendar and Contacts with MailSite using ActiveSync
This article describes the procedure to setup an Exchange ActiveSync account in Outlook Classic for Windows to connect to MailSite to synchronize email, calendar and contacts. The screenshots are from Outlook Classic 2021 running on Windows 11, but other versions of Outlook Classic and Windows should work the same way.
Microsoft's New Outlook: Major Privacy Concerns, Fewer Features
For decades, Microsoft Outlook has been a cornerstone email client and personal information manager for millions, evolving significantly since its first release in 1997. Known as a workhorse, the traditional desktop version ("Classic Outlook") allowed users to connect to various email servers (including Microsoft Exchange, POP and IMAP) and manage their email, calendars, and contacts, often storing data locally for offline access and fast searching.
Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 End-of-Life is October 14 2025: Time to Decide Your Next Steps
Microsoft has put administrators on notice: the clock is ticking for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. Support for both versions officially ends on October 14, 2025. As confirmed by recent reports in publications like The Register and Computerworld, this means no more updates, technical support, bug fixes, or crucial security patches after that date.
Using Thunderbird with MailSite to Sync Email Calendar Contacts
Thunderbird is a powerful desktop email, calendar and contact management app for Windows, MacOS and Linux. This article explains how to setup and use Thunderbird with MailSite to synchronize email, calendars and contacts.
MailSite ActiveSync with Microsoft Outlook
Connecting to MailSite from Microsoft Outlook using ActiveSync
Exposing The MailSite Spam Score in Microsoft Outlook
How to Display the MailSite Spam Score in Microsoft Outlook
MailSite Amazon AWS Cloud Image Updated to 10.3
The MailSite Ready To Run Email Server available on the Amazon AWS Cloud has proved very popular with our customers small and large, new and old. Built on a secured Windows Server virtual machine, installed and configured for you by our experts, you can be up and running with a new MailSite server in as little as 15 minutes!
MailSite 10.3 Released
Domain Administration Now Available in ExpressPro: MailSite 10.3 continues the work that we started in MailSite 10 to move the most common administration tasks from the Windows and Web Consoles into ExpressPro. MailSite 10.3 expands upon the mailbox administration options already present in 10.2. It brings the ability to manage domain settings together with account creation and deletion into ExpressPro.
MailSite in the Amazon Cloud
MailSite is now available in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Built on a secured Windows Server 2012 virtual machine, the MailSite Ready to Run Email Server been installed and configured for you by our experts, saving you time and effort. You can be up and running with a new MailSite server in as little as 15 minutes!
Microsoft Wants Your Email In The Cloud – No More Small Business Server
Microsoft Discontinues Small Business Server
MailSite 10.1 Maintenance Release
MailSite 10.1 has been released to our website for download. This is primarily a stability and bug fix update for version 10 and we strongly recommend all customers upgrade to this latest release. 10.1 also includes a small number of new enhancements and features including
IMAP Performance Improvements in MailSite 10 (part 2)
In a previous blog post we described the pipelining performance optimizations we made in MailSite 10 to improve IMAP and TLS connections. This wasn't all we did in MailSite 10, we also decided to tackle a long standing protocol flaw in IMAP; the ability to query for changes to a folder, especially in modern mail folders which could easily contain 10,000s of email messages.
IMAP Performance Improvements in MailSite 10 (part 1)
After performance tuning our ActiveSync V14 support in MailSite 10.0, we found to our surprise that syncing a large account was dramatically faster than it was against our IMAP server. In both cases the vast majority of the data transferred must be identical message data, so it ought to be the case that the sync times are very similar. This led us to set up an experiment to examine our IMAP performance in more detail; an exercise which turned out to be a very fruitful indeed.
Debugging Tips: How to Find and Trace a Message Through the SMTPRA and SMTPDA Logs
Have you ever wanted to know where that missing message went that you never received? Has an employee said they didn’t receive your email when you think they did? Well now you can find out where they went.
MailSite News and Offers June 2013
Free ActiveSync Subscription and Upgrade Assistance With Renewals. MailSite LE/SP subscription? Renew in June or July and receive Free ActiveSync mailboxes for native synchronization for email, calendar and contacts with your mobile and desktop devices. MailSite SE subscription? Renew in June or July and receive free upgrade assistance*. And there's more! Back by popular demand - 3for2 Special! Celebrate with us and receive a free year of service when you purchase a two year MailSite subscription in June or July.
Welcome to the new MailSite Blog
We intend to use this blog to keep our customers up to date on the latest news for MailSite email, calendar and contact collaboration server. There will be regular articles from our Support, Marketing and Engineering teams offering helpful tips, and an insight into what we are working on together with product news and offers. We hope you find the content both insightful and useful, and we welcome your comments and invite discussion on any of the topics.
Announcing MailSite Version 10
We’re thrilled to announce the release of MailSite v10, our Windows-based mail server. In previous versions of MailSite, we listened to our users on what we could do to create a better experience for everyone. Although we weren’t able to incorporate all of the ideas into this release, we’re confident that you’ll be pleased with the changes we have made to our product. The many enhancements we’ve made are designed to better the webmail experience and increase server performance, reliability, and speed of email delivery.