iPhone email tool: Mobile Gateway 3.0 Microsoft Exchange to iPhone
Posted by dennis on August 9th, 2007 at 12:30pm Comments
According to many individuals the fact that Apple’s iPhone doesn’t support Microsoft Exchange is the very reason why iPhone can’t do good in the corporate world, where Microsoft Exchange is a common solution for e-mails. But wait…
Synchronica announced a free trial of its Mobile Gateway 3.0, providing mobile synchronization between Microsoft Exchange and the native e-mail client of the iPhone. Owners of the Apple iPhone can now try Mobile Gateway free of charge to send and receive corporate email using their iPhones - without having to install any software on the device or behind the corporate firewall.
Early adopters of the Apple iPhone interested in a test drive of Mobile Gateway 3.0 can visit www.synchronica.com to sign up for the free 60-day trial starting today. After the trial period, Synchronica intends to announce migration options to a commercially supported solution including offerings through service providers. For more details read the press release below.
Until now, owners of Apple’s ground-breaking smartphone have been largely locked out of corporate mail systems, because the built-in e-mail client of the iPhone only supports Microsoft Exchange via direct IMAP/SMTP connections - a feature which is often blocked by corporate firewalls due to security concerns.
Synchronica now provides a secure gateway in the corporate environment using Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access (OWA) to retrieve e-mail from the Exchange server, a service enabled by many enterprises to provide users with access to corporate e-mail from home or while traveling.
Mobile Gateway is a perfect companion to Apple’s iTunes application. While iTunes synchronizes calendar and contacts with Microsoft Outlook, Mobile Gateway keeps iPhone users connected to their corporate e-mail once they have left the office. It provides tight integration between the iPhone and Microsoft Exchange and automatically delivers e-mails to the built-in e-mail application of the iPhone, including support for folders and attachments.
Replies and new messages are relayed back to the corporate Exchange server and appear in the ‘Sent Items’ folder in Outlook when the user comes back to the office – no need for the cumbersome copy-to-self workaround.
Signing up for the service is easy and straightforward. Thanks to Mobile Gateway’s unique zero footprint architecture, users simply register their iPhones with Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway and can start to send and receive wireless e-mail immediately - no software to be installed on the device and no connectors or redirectors to be installed in the corporate network.
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