With Microsoft Mail Gateway to SMTP, users can send and receive Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) messages as easily as Microsoft Mail.
This gateway is easy to maintain. Administrators can use the standard Microsoft Mail administration program to control access to the gateway and to use the full-traffic and error-logging support to isolate problems and optimize routing. Global directory synchronization provided by the product can reduce directory maintenance by automatically updating Microsoft Mail directories with user addresses from other electronic mail systems in the organization.
You can link Microsoft Mail systems transparently using SMTP. Encapsulation lets users send mail messages containing text, binary files, multimedia objects, and directory updates over a messaging backbone without any loss of data integrity. This gateway automatically encapsulates all binary file attachments and messages with extended characters.
Microsoft Mail Gateway to SMTP supports the following major standards: