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Is IceMail the Answer for iPhone Business Users?

Posted July 10, 2007 3:00 AM by Gregory Ng
Categories: Third-party add-ons 

imageHallelujah! Praise everything that is made of optical glass! The news that there is a service that can offer a hosted Microsoft Exchange e-mail subscription service for the iPhone is like music to most people’s ears. The lack of Exchange compatibility for the iPhone is one of the biggest barriers to success for the iPhone in enterprise-wide business use.

Now, IceWeb has released IceMail: perhaps the best thing to happen to iPhone early adopters desperately in need of justification to their MIS departments.

IceWeb chairman and CEO John R Signorello said that his company’s efforts have been made to make sure that iPhone users have access to an Exchange-based e-mail system even without requiring any infrastructure changes to a corporate IT environment.

IceWeb is offering a free 30-day trial for IceMail and then a subscription price of US$8.50 per month. Now the question is whether the success or failure of this service will influence the incorporation of ActiveSync for the iPhone (at least one that is endorsed by Apple)

[Via PC World]

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  1. I don’t understand.  I keep seeing posts about this, but I checked it out, and all it is is a $8.50 hosted Exchange account where they’ve turned on IMAP.  It doesn’t interface with YOUR Exchange server - it’s a new account - so how does it help anybody?  I think this is just a promotional stunt by a company that was already selling Exchange accounts.

    Posted by Scott on July 10, 2007 5:46 AM

  2. I absolutely agree with Scott. I use 4Smartphone.net which is the same thing as IceMail and all it is is and Exchange account with IMAP turned on.

    The thing is, IMAP through an Exchange server uses port 2525 for outgoing mail instead of port 25. There is no way on the iPhone to change the port that the Mail app uses to receive email.

    I can get incoming mail, and when I delete an email, it syncs with the server, but no sending email.

    Also, 4smartphone says that they do not support IMAP and only offer it as a courtesy service….go figure.

    So I use Gmail POP with a filter to eliminate receiving my sent messages…

    Posted by Dennis on July 10, 2007 4:58 PM

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