Rackspace Email & Apps Blog

We are excited to announce our latest feature, Outlook-Sync. This feature has been one of the top requests by our users and we are pleased to add it to our growing list of business-class email services.

With Outlook-Sync, customers who want to use both Microsoft Outlook and our webmail interface can now easily synchronize their calendars, contacts, and notes between the two interfaces. In addition, with Outlook, end-users can conveniently synchronize their shared calendars, allowing visibility to calendars on- and offline.

Sync, which can be purchased through the control panel, will continue to evolve, to include other email clients and mobile devices—including BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. Once you upgrade your domain(s) to Sync, you will automatically benefit from any future versions of this plug-in.

Pricing for Sync is also available within the control panel. The price depends on the number of mailboxes you have with us and includes a free upgrade to 10GB mailboxes.

To purchase Sync services, log in to your control panel and select My Account / Upgrade Services / Upgrade Email Plans. You can also view these tutorials which will walk you through the necessary steps to upgrade your account to include the Outlook-Sync services. For further reference setting up and using Outlook-Sync, please join us for our Sync training webinar on Monday, December 3 at 4:00 PM (US – EST) or Tuesday, December 4 at 11:00 AM (US – EST).

As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your sales rep or our customer support team.

Since May, our Outreach Email Marketing Service has served as an excellent tool for distributing your email campaigns to large subscriber lists. Based on great input, we continue to enhance this service, and are happy to announce the availability of Outreach 1.4!
This latest version of Outreach provides you even more flexibility in newsletter creation, tracking and productivity enhancements. Now, when creating an email campaign, you have the capability to:

• Create drafts of your email campaigns for sharing, review and updates prior to distribution and reuse at a later date
• Add “first name, last name