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With our Managed Email Exchange your e-mails are managed and maintained by us in our secure servers saving you time and money. Our premium email service provides anti-virus, anti-spam, back-ups and flexible access options so you don't need complex in-house technology or networks.

How a Managed Email Exchange can help your business

  • Share access to critical and frequently used information (eg. client and supplier contact details)
  • Coordinate daily schedules through personal calendar tools
  • Work with other staff to arrange and prepare for meetings using 'Meeting Planner'
  • Book or reserve shared company resources (eg. meeting rooms, data projectors, cars etc)
  • Staff can access their email and Outlook work tools through a number of web-enabled devices such as: Desktop PCs, laptops, PDAs with GPRS, WAP mobile phones with GPRS, BlackBerry mobile devices with GPRS, and internet kiosks
  • Data is constantly synchronised and updated
  • Outlook work tools allow staff to:

    - Review colleagues' availability for meetings
    - Send, receive, accept and/or decline meeting invitations.

Monthly cost per mailbox

$5

$10

$15

$20

Access Methods
Microsoft Outlook 2003 Software License (PC Access) tick tick tick tick
Outlook Web & Mobile Device Access* tick tick tick tick
Basic Features
Email/Contacts/Tasks/Notes tick tick tick tick
Calendar tick tick tick tick
Included Storage Space for mailbox content

100MB

100MB

100MB

200MB

Meeting Planner tick tick tick tick
Built-In Anti Virus & Spam Filtering tick tick tick tick
Data Back-up tick tick tick tick
Advanced Features
Public (Shared) Folder tick tick tick tick
Included Storage Space for Public Folder content (per company)^

n/a

100MB

100MB

100MB

Offline Use tick tick tick tick
Give others access to your mailbox tick

read only

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Set up Archive Folders (.pst files) tick tick tick tick
MAPI Access tick tick tick tick
Integration with Managed Intranet Manager Workspaces tick tick tick tick
Add-On Options
BlackBerry Add-On per mailbox per month*

$15.00

$15.00

$15.00

$15.00

100MB Storage Add-On per month

$5.00

$5.00

$5.00

$5.00

* Devices and GPRS plan costs are not included. You are responsible for the selection, maintenance and support for your mobile device and GPRS plan to which you connect to this service. Synchronisation via your mobile device with the version of Outlook installed on your PC is only available to customers with MAPI Access (ie. using Managed Email Exchange $15 or $20 plans only).


Terms and Conditions

Excess storage is calculated at company level, based on the combined total of the average daily storage utility of each Managed Exchange mailbox and the Public Folder (if applicable) under the account across the given month.  Excess storage is charged at $0.099 per MB per month.

To utilise Managed Email Exchange, your email does not have to be currently hosted by Optus. Migration of your existing mail can also be arranged.

The full monthly charge for each Managed Email Exchange mailbox created will be incurred for the whole or part of your billing month in which the product is enabled.

The effective data storage rate for the 100MB Storage Add-On is $0.05 per MB per month.

Moving to Managed Email Exchange Basic Access or Web Access if you are already using Microsoft® Outlook may incur on a one off $135 fee per hour.