What's New
Recent updates to our Email Retrieval application

May 10, 2006
Rich Text Editor
When composing email, a “Rich Text Editor” is available allowing to write email with HTML formatting, allowing users to specify various text, font, color and layout options within their email. Other features available include links, lists, indentations, justification, cut, copy, paste and spell check in 10 different languages. Users can switch between the Rich Text Editor and Basic Text editor on mail2web.com's Compose page. A plain text equivalent is sent with each Rich Text email, allowing users who prefer to read email in plain text to do so easily.

September 15 , 2005
Website redesigned
The entire mail2web.com interface was redesigned with a new master navigation scheme used to bring together all the mail2web.com sites. mail2web.com, exchange.mail2web.com, support.mail2web.com and services.mail2web.com now all share a common navigation scheme. Specific to the email retrieval application, this update now uses CSS (cascading style sheets) for layout. Users on devices that don’t support CSS will see a messaging when accessing www.mail2web.com that encourages them to use the PDA version of the product – mail2web.com/pda/. This version has been optimized not only for PDA-type devices but also any browser that experiences difficulty with the existing version of mail2web.com.

Other updates to the mail2web.com interface include a wider format when listing emails, shorter row height so more emails are visible when in the ‘List’ view, a new color scheme and icons for commonly used functions. Finally, the fields used for email attachments have been moved to the bottom of the message page.  

February 7, 2005
PDA, WAP and other updates
When reading an email it now displays the ‘From Address’ & ‘On Behalf Of’ & ‘The Senders’ address when the from and sender addresses are different. Previous updates to intelligent login – implementing an improved algorithm to work with a greater number of mail servers – has also been implemented for WAP and PDA services. In addition, PDA users will also benefit from the updates for regular mail2web.com users on February 3rd, 2005, that allows them to modify the ‘From’ address. The WAP service did not get these updates due to wml page limits.

February 3, 2005
Intelligent login and feature update
Faster login and enhanced ability to work with a greater number of mail servers was introduced by implementing an improved algorithm for intelligent login mail2web.com also introduced the ability to modify the ‘From’ field when composing an email. When this feature is used, and the ‘From’ address is modified, most email software will show “Sender’s address” followed by “, “On Behalf Of” the email account from which the message was sent.

December 29, 2004
Usenet.mail2web.com introduced
mail2web.com introduces usenet.mail2web.com to replace www.news2web.com. This service provides the ability to read your usenet newsgroups through an elegant web interface. Whether you are sitting behind a firewall, or traveling, you can use usenet.mail2web.com to access Usenet Newsgroups. usenet.mail2web.com is completely platform independent which means you are free to use it with your Windows PC, Mac, or Unix computer – learn more.

December 8, 2004
New Premium Services introduced on mail2web.com
Microsoft® Exchange Email is now available for Personal and Business users starting from $1.99/month. This service provides a premium level of email on a highly respected email platform: anti-virus, anti-spam, address book, calendar, tasks, etc. all at an affordable price. Get your @mail2web.net email address today – learn more. Also, for mobile users a global roaming (dial-up and wireless) service has been introduced that is available in 170 countries – learn more.

November 26, 2004
chat.mail2web.com
mail2web.com introduces a free chat service. This new service is a Jabber based Instant Messaging system which simplifies your life by making it easy to access all of your different instant messaging accounts under a single system. It also allows users to have one-to-one chat, multi-user chat, the ability to subscribe to someone else's presence, and chat with MSN®, AOL®, YAHOO® and ICQ® instant messaging users – learn more.

November 18, 2004
GMAIL™ email now supported
All Google Mail (GMAIL™) users can access their email using mail2web.com.

October 20, 2004
mail2pda.com and mail2wap.com updated
New version of interfaces have been updated to increase performance and functionality. To simplify usage, both interfaces fully support the 'Personalized' feature that allows users to save a user profile on the system. PDA users simply need to add the suffix "pda" after their 'Personalized' user name, while WAP users need to add the suffix "wap". For example, to access the PDA version type - http://mail2web.com/name/pda. For more information see our online knowledge base.

April 15, 2004
AOL® email now supported
Now all AOL® users can access their email using mail2web.com.

January 3, 2003
POP3 and IMAP communication with SSL
mail2web.com users can now use SSL to access POP3 or IMAP mail server. This feature makes all communication between the browser and the mail server secure and encrypted. All users have will have access to this functionality.

November 15, 2002
Add to contacts
You can now add email addresses into your contacts from your mail headers (TO,CC fields) while reading an email. You just need to click on the email address in the mail header to add your contacts. Only personalized users will have access to this functionality.

September 18, 2002
Tiff to JPEG conversion
Because most browsers don't display tiff files properly and some fax-to-email technologies will only produce .TIFF files a "TIFF to JPEG Conversion" technology has been added. If your mail contains a TIFF attachment, mail2web will now automatically create a JPEG file to allow you to view it within your browser. All users will now have this functionality.

July 24, 2002
Contacts
 Address book for personalized users has been added. Personalized users can have 100 contacts, 10 email address per contact and 20 groups. They can add contacts while sending an email by clicking TO/CC/BCC labels. They can also insert their existing contacts using "Import (CSV Format)". Only personalized users will have this functionality.

July 17, 2002
HTML mail display
mail2web.com can now display HTML emails properly. If an email contains an HTML mime part, a "View as HTML" button appears while you are reading the message. mail2web.com also analyzes all tags and remove malicious codes. All users now have this functionality.

April 16, 2002
Banner Service
SoftCom unveils its mail2web.com banner advertising service

September 6, 2001
Version 5. launch
SoftCom announces the launch of the new myhosting® website. In addition to now supporting 16 different languages and IMAP4 applications such as Microsoft® Exchange®, mail2web.com now offers the ability to personalize an e-mail homepage allowing a user to save e-mail addresses, making it even easier to retrieve multiple accounts without having to reenter information each time. (version 5)

June 20, 2000
Version 4 launch
User Interface improvements (version 4)

September 8, 1999
Load Balancing Service
mail2web.com now runs on multiple computers.

July 1998
Version 3 launch
mail2web.com code re-written in ASP to improve performance and re-structure the architecture (version 3)

December 10, 1997
Version 2 launch
Code improvements now complete; mail2web.com code was introduced as a CGI application (version 2)

August 22, 1997
mail2web.com was launched. (version 1)