Webmail.us Reaches Milestone of Providing Business-Class Email Hosting to More Than 500,000 Users

July 24, 2007; 03:25 AM
Webmail.us, a leading provider of business-class email services to small, medium, and geographically dispersed businesses, today announced that the company now provides email hosting to more than 500,000 business email users. The company attributes its continued growth to the market shift towards email outsourcing and the desire to work with an email specialist for such mission critical business communications.

"Email is the most widely used communication medium in business," said Pat Matthews, chief executive officer at Webmail.us. "Businesses rely on email, but a growing number of them don't want to manage it themselves. They turn to us because we're specialists--we're 100% focused on hosting email for our customers."

"Prior to working with Webmail.us, we were managing 10,000 mailboxes in-house," explained Larry Green, director of information systems of the PGA of America. "We were tired of trying to keep up with spam, viruses, and all of the other junk associated with managing an email system. But email is mission critical and we couldn't just outsource it to anyone. After a thorough search, we partnered with Webmail.us because they specialize in hosting email for businesses. All they think about is email every day. That gave us the peace of mind we needed to be comfortable with moving our email accounts offsite."

"As a web design firm, we've also found ourselves hosting email for our customers," said Phil Pelanne, the network administrator for New City Media. "But unlike other IT services, managing email gets more complex and time consuming every day. As email hosting started to become a full-time job, we realized we needed to find someone that could help. With dozens of hosting companies to choose from, we selected Webmail.us because of their unique focus and industry expertise. They now host more than 700 email accounts for our customers."

The company's comprehensive email services include the following:

• Domain-based email (i.e., [email protected])
• Support for POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP protocols, which allow customers to use their favorite desktop software, such as Outlook and Thunderbird, and wireless devices, such as Blackberry and Treo
• Shared calendaring, for coordinating schedules with others in a company
• Anytime, anywhere access to email, contacts, calendar events, tasks, and blog feeds, via webmail, from any Internet connected computer
• Large attachment size limits and huge mailboxes for storing email on the web
• Built-in anti-spam and virus protection
• Email marketing tools for sending email newsletters and electronic marketing campaigns to opt-in subscribers
• Webmail Mobile for checking email, calendar events, tasks, and blog feeds from any wireless browser
• Control panel for setting up and administrating email accounts with the push of a button
• Live customer service and support around the clock (24 x 7 x 365)