May 20, 2009 : Rackspace Launches Rackspace Email 7.0

📅 May 20, 2009 - Users to benefit from major product enhancements to SaaS-based email hosting service.

Rackspace Hosting, a web hosting company, today unveiled Rackspace Email 7.0, a major release of its business-class email hosting service. The company states that Rackspace Email 7.0 includes updates to its full-featured webmail app, such as right-click functionality, multiple personal calendars, the ability to delegate calendar ''write access'' to another user such as an administrative assistant, iCal calendar feeds, and improved foreign language handling.

It adds that the release of Rackspace Email 7.0 coincides with new reduced pricing for Rackspace Email customers. The company avers that for the current pricing of $1 per mailbox, per month, customers get:

• Real POP and IMAP email access from any email or mobile app

• Web-based email, shared calendaring, contacts and tasks

• Full synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile

• Multi-layer, integrated anti-spam and anti-virus protection

• 10GB of storage per user

''Email is the lifeblood of business communications and there is no reason that an organization should be spending time, money, and resources to host their own email servers,'' said Pat Matthews, General Manager of Rackspace Email & Apps. ''With Rackspace Email 7.0, we provide businesses an exciting alternative to in-house email hosting that fulfills the ROI promise of cloud computing.''

Matthews adds ''The release of Rackspace Email 7.0 is a significant milestone. Rackspace Email together with our Microsoft Exchange services, provides our customers with the most comprehensive email hosting service on the market, at a price that delivers massive cost-savings to businesses of all sizes.''