P R E S S ~ R E L E A S E
Oct. 15, 2003
Beehive Software has released their version 4.0 BeeMail extension, for Windows and Macintosh, which now allows ANY email user to securely send file attachments of ANY size, transparently along with their email message. The key words - "securely", "any size" and "transparently" are the requirements that have made this product development nontrivial. Most people consider file transfer old hat but in fact, the most common file transfer methods such as ftp and http are not secure, do not have universal addressing schemes, have file limits, and are NOT simple and transparent to use.
BeeMail supports all the most common email packages for Windows and Macintosh, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Notes and any other product that uses SMTP as the sending protocol. BeeMail separates the file attachments from the email body and substitutes a URL. BeeMail sends the files to a secure file transfer server and compresses the files “On-the-Fly” to speed transfer. The recipient clicks on the URL in the message and the files are downloaded.
BeeMail supports all the most common email packages for Windows and Macintosh, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Notes and any other product that uses SMTP as the sending protocol. For more information on the BeeMail clinet go to:
Beehive - A long History of Innovation:
The BeeMail Gateway is built on top of a series of previous Beehive Software product releases. Beehive has tackled all of the foundation problems that had to be mastered before email could attach large files. Beehive Software was the FIRST to develop a file transfer product using "On-the-Fly" streaming file compression (1998), the FIRST to use Universal Email Addressing for File Transfer (1999), the FIRST to use https as a secure large file transfer protocol (2000), the FIRST to implement file transfer “latency tolerance” over commodity Internet bandwidth (2002), the FIRST to develop file transfer SMTP proxy agents (2003) and the FIRST to develop a totally transparent Outbound Email Boundary Services Gateway (2004). It's no wonder that Microsoft needs another two years to finish their release; Beehive has been working on aspects of this product line sine 1997!
Beehive (including its private label versions) is the most widely installed file transfer software in the printing, prepress and newspaper industries with over 1500 site licenses and 100,000 end users.