Launch: Faster Webmail; Harbinger is Live

Posted by Pat on 08/16/2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)

We’re excited to announce that the latest version of webmail, codenamed Harbinger, is now live. This version of webmail supports Firefox, Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, as well as Safari. However, webmail runs much faster in Firefox than other browsers and therefore we recommend downloading Firefox.

If you would like to try out the new platform, here is our one-click demo that will launch a demo version of the webmail interface.

Here is the press release about our product launch that we issued yesterday.

We were also reviewed by TechCrunch and Read/Write/Web, both of which are highly visible blogs in the technology world.

If you’re an existing customer, you can log into your control panel and upgrade immediately. If you would like to wait to upgrade, you have until November 22, 2006, at which time we’ll move everyone to the new platform.

We worked really hard on this release. As I’ve mentioned a few times before, this was almost a complete re-write of our webmail code base with the intention of providing a much faster experience for webmail users. It will also allow us to add features quickly, something we’ve already started working on.

Thanks to Mike for doing an outstanding job as team lead of this project and Steve, Joel, Huey, Jing, and the many others who spent the last eight months building Harbinger into what it is today.

Comments

Yeah, your upgrade is great. I have 1mb pictures that load as fast as it takes me to scroll down with my mouse!

Posted by: Rob at August 17, 2006 11:38 PM

Can I upgrade just my e-mail account to the new version of webmail (pre-test before my clients) or do I have to upgrade all the e-mails in my account?

Posted by: Ron Gabrys at August 21, 2006 10:51 AM

Giving the harbinger upgrade a dry run is as easy as logging into a new URL. Just go to https://beta.webmail.us and use your full email address and password to log in. It even has an SSL certificate so you can rest assured that everything is encrypted. Let us know what you think!

Posted by: Customer Care Guy at August 21, 2006 07:33 PM

Is there a list of all features upgraded with the new version available anywhere?

Posted by: Steve Harrison at August 22, 2006 01:33 PM

This is a great, responsive Webmail system.

I like the AJAX autocomplete stuff. To get this working, I've been adding people to my address book (as required), and noticed that it would be a lot easier if I there were an "Add to contacts" button on emails viewed in preview mode, either next to the name of the sender or next to the Blacklist/Whitelist options.

Posted by: Ryan at August 25, 2006 07:35 PM

How does one download the Harbinger update?

Posted by: Ed Davis at October 22, 2006 02:23 PM

Ed, as an @webmail.us user, you have Harbinger update. If you're referring to another domain name you host with us, let me know.

Posted by: Pat at October 23, 2006 08:43 AM

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