MailSite Blog

Product, Technology and Support news relating to MailSite email, calendar and contact server software

April 27, 2025
Microsoft's New Outlook: Major Privacy Concerns, Fewer Features preview image

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.

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November 27, 2014
MailSite Amazon AWS Cloud Image Updated to 10.3 preview image

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!

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October 21, 2014
MailSite 10.3 Released preview image

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.

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December 12, 2013
MailSite in the Amazon Cloud preview image

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!

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July 31, 2013

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.

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July 8, 2013

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.

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June 18, 2013

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.

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May 31, 2013

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.

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January 31, 2013

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.

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