This photo shows FuseMail sales and marketing VP Henry Weber (left) and president Bryan Heitman (right) at the Parallels Summit 2009 in Las Vegas.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Business and private label email hosting solutions provider FuseMail (www.fusemail.com) has released the beta of its Webmail version 3, designed to give users a better in-browser email experience with customization and rich web 2.0 features at the core of the platform.
“Webmail Version 3 is without doubt, the biggest development in FuseMail’s history,” FuseMail president Bryan Heitman said. “The interface is miles ahead of the competition, offering all the features you would expect from a download-able email client from within your browser.”
Unveiled at the 2009 Parallels Summit in Las Vegas, FuseMail’s new webmail platform, already available to 60 to 70 percent of customers, promises to be a more intuitive, customizable and fast, offering a viable alternative to download-able email clients, according to FuseMail sales and marketing vice president Henry Weber.
“We try to cache as much as we can once you first log in,” Weber said. “A lot of it’s running from your computer’s memory, so it should be really quick – it’s definitely comparable to Outlook.”
With speed being a factor that has held back webmail clients in the past compared to traditional email clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird, FuseMail’s Webmail v3 stores significant amounts of each message in a database rather than a traditional folder. FuseMail is also able to geolocate user data to the nearest data center, giving them lightning fast experience.
FuseMail has also incorporated a sleek, clean interface made up of customizable panels, each displaying different information such as the message list, message body, a calendar, a contact list and disk space usage, which can be turned off, or dragged and dropped into a different position.
“We really wanted to make it customizable for people so it’s completely flexible in how you lay it out,” Weber said.
While it already has an API for administrators, FuseMail is in the process of building APIs to let developers integrate their own applications into the interface.
