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Teamware Office 7.1 Ed 1 comes with a new component called Message Submission Agent (MSA). The RFC2476 Message Submission Agent can introduce messages into the Teamware Office system on behalf of a user, which allows that mail to be delivered using the Teamware Office delivery mechanisms.
The Message Submission Agent offers a user-friendly solution to sending messages from mobile phones via Teamware Mobile. The Message Submission Agent also acts as a general submission agent for any POP or IMAP client that users SMTP to submit mail.
With the Message Submission Agent, this effectively means that IMAP clients will have to authenticate and send their mail via a “Submission Server” (also using SMTP) rather than the SMTP server. The mail is then delivered in the same way as though the mail were submitted using the Teamware Office Mail client and the mail is automatically stored in the user’s mailbox.
This has several benefits:
- It supports authentication and IP address limitation.
- It provides a more efficient delivery mechanism.
- It automatically puts the message in the user’s outbox.
- Message statuses, such as delivery reports, receipt notifications and replies are handled in the normal Teamware Office way.
- It removes the need for the IMAP client to send the message twice, once to send it and the second time to store it using the IMAP server folder.
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