Hmail: Coming to a browser near you
July 2, 2007Thanks again to all our users for your comments and suggestions! We read them all, and I’m happy to say that a great many of you ask for things already in the pipeline. For example, several of you have asked for changes to our email system. Well guess what? Change is here! We invited Sam to tell you about Hmail, the new email system we’re rolling out. As a Product Designer and an obsessive emailer, he’s uniquely qualified to give you a peek at what’s coming up. - Rochelle
Yes, I’m an email junkie. These days, I guess we all are. There are all sorts of ways we can read and manage our email, and a lot of us handle our personal and professional email accounts differently. I know many people like the functionality and control that desktop email applications like Microsoft Outlook provide. Others prefer the simplicity and convenience of web-based email tools such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail
Well, Hmail gives you the best of both worlds!
Hmail is Homestead’s innovative new email tool. It runs in any web browser, like Gmail and Yahoo! Mail do, so you can read your email nearly anywhere. At the same time it gives you the added functionality of a desktop email application, like the ability to drag and drop your email into folders, and an interactive calendar.
You can even use Hmail to read email from your own personalized email account. If you have a domain hosted at Homestead, say for example ‘www.yourbusinessname.com’, you can set up your own custom email addresses like ‘theboss@yourbusinessname.com’, and use Hmail to check and manage them.
There’s a lot more too; check out our Hmail page here for more information. Hmail does a lot more than our old email system did, and there’s still more functionality we expect to add. I’ll tell you about new features and improvements as we make them.
Some of you have already begun using Hmail, and we’re in the process of upgrading everyone else as soon as we can. If your account is hosted here, look for an email from us notifying you of your migration date!
Thanks, we hope you like the new Hmail!
