The Bottom Line
MailRelayer provides an easy to use but powerful way to access all the messages stored in your email client remotely. It's almost like your own IMAP server, but you must use a supported email client.
Unfortunately, MailRelayer is no longer available.
Unfortunately, MailRelayer is no longer available.
Pros
- MailRelayer lets you access all your mail anywhere
- Easy to set up and use, MailRelayer is a practical tool
- MailRelayer works with dynamic DNS services
Cons
- MailRelayer doesn't include SMTP and Webmail services
- MailRelayer requires Outlook, Eudora or Netscape/Mozilla
- Netscape users limited to read-only access
Description
- MailRelayer provides remote access to email stored in your email client.
- MailRelayer acts as an IMAP server, accessible from email clients, Webmail, PPCs, and more.
- Optionally, MailRelayer can offer POP access, too, if IMAP is no option.
- MailRelayer includes support for several dynamic DNS services.
- Individual folders can be made unavailable for remote access.
- MailRelayer can convert HTML messages to plain text (for fast, secure access on PDAs, for example).
- With Outlook, MailRelayer provides access to faxes and other messages, too.
- MailRelayer keeps a detailed log and can automatically disable accounts after failed log-in attempts.
- Optional add-on provides SSL encryption for IMAP and POP connections to MailRelayer.
- MailRelayer supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP and requires Outlook, Eudora or Netscape/Mozilla.
Guide Review - MailRelayer 1.4
If you want to access your emails from more than one place, you probably know that an IMAP server is the ideal solution.
You'd log in, read, delete, filter, move and send mails, and all actions would automatically be synchronized with all other access points. Unfortunately, setting up your own IMAP server can be cumbersome and costly. But it need not be.
MailRelayer turns your email program (only if it's one of the supported ones, though) into an IMAP server. With no configuration and no hassles, you get all the features of a "real" server.
MailRelayer even works nicely with a dynamic DNS setup, and you can use one-time passwords and, optionally, SSL encryption for a maximum of security if you access your mail from public terminals.
