Houston, TX (PRWEB) July 13, 2004 -- E-mail hosting provider Greatmail LLC today announced a backup e-mail service designed for businesses and organizations seeking complete e-mail redundancy. Backup Mail Server allows administrators to create a secondary mail server that mirrors the setup of their primary server. In the event a company's primary mail server is unreachable, messages are delivered to mailboxes on the secondary server. Backup Mail Server not only prevents incoming messages from being bounced but also allows users to send and receive e-mail while the primary server is unavailable.

In order to achieve e-mail redundancy, Backup Mail Server utilizes DNS management tools available through most domain name registrars that allow administrators to create multiple mail exchange records or "MX records" which define the servers that handle a domain's e-mail. In addition, each MX record is assigned a priority with lower numbered records taking higher priority. For Backup Mail Server to work, an administrator must specify a lower priority MX record that points to the secondary mail server and also establish and maintain secondary mail accounts or a catchall account on the backup server. To complete the redundant setup, administrators should create secondary mail client accounts that connect to the backup server or instruct users to use Greatmail's webmail to access and send messages.

Greatmail offers five backup mail plans that include up to 5 gigabytes of storage and are priced from $9.95 to $99.95 per month. Additional storage is available for $18 per gigabyte. An optional setup fee of $80 includes domain name registration, DNS/MX record support, and configuration of the client's mail accounts. Backup Mail Server supports both POP3 and IMAP4 protocols, thus allowing users to access their e-mail through client applications such as Microsoft Outlook or Greatmail's webmail application. Backup Mail Server features an intuitive web based administration panel allowing administrators to easily update and maintain user accounts, forwards, aliases, autoresponders, mailing lists, and storage quotas. In addition, users may individually manage vacation message and spam control preferences. All user accounts are protected at the mail server level by Clam Antivirus.

In addition to Backup Mail Server, Greatmail offers five standard e-mail and web hosting plans that include up to 5 gigabytes of storage and 500 mailboxes per account. Web hosting features include support for mySQL, PHP, mod_perl, SSL and FTP. E-mail features include support for both POP3 and IMAP4 protocols, SMTP authentication, mail forwarding, autoresponders, aliases, mailing lists, virus protection and spam control. For ISPs and resellers, Greatmail develops custom solutions including private label dedicated servers and load balanced server clusters.

Greatmail's servers are located at a dedicated climate-controlled facility equipped with complete power protection via on-site UPS and diesel generators, pre-action fire suppression and direct connections to the major internet backbones. 24-hour network supervision by qualified technicians and automated system monitoring ensure quick problem resolution. Greatmail's servers run the latest versions of Linux OS and are backed up daily by a server independent, non-centralized mirrored disk backup system.

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