The most popular intranet application is obviously inter-office e-mail. This capability allows the employees of a company to communicate with each other swiftly and easily. If the intranet has access to the Internet, e-mail can be accessed through the Internet connection.
An intranet has many other different applications that can be utilized by a company. These include the Web publishing of corporate documents, Web forms, and Web-to-database links that allow users to access information. Newsletters, information on benefits, job listings and classifieds, libraries, stock quotes, maps, historical data, catalogs, price lists, information on competitors' products, and customer service data are just a few examples of these types of applications. In addition, there are several other main applications that are very popular in the intranet format.
Here are some of the advantages and benefits of having intranet mail & web server.
- Able to send and receive email for local (intranet) users.
- Sends and receives mail for many Internet mail boxes at one time using the POP3 protocol
- Unlimited number of users depending on server capacity.
- Outgoing internet mails can be sent manually by the administrator or automatically depending on mail match setup.
- Can Store a copy of outgoing and incoming internet emails only.
- Group email messaging using internet mailbox going to intranet mail users.
- Mails intended for local users doesn’t get out of the internet and sent directly through local mail server.
- With built in intranet WWW server.
- Management of all functions via a WWW interface
- Plug-in support which allows to check messages for viruses and dangerous attachments. (Haven’t tested for incoming & outgoing virus attachment)
