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NetMail is an email system for network workstations, consisting of a mail/SMS gateway and a Windows client. Alternatively conventional POP3/SMTP clients or a webmail interface can be used. The software can also be combined with CapiFax and CapiCall to form a Unified Messaging System (UMS).

The free NetMail Light is limited to 3 users and does not support a GSM modem for SMS.

In a local-area network, NetMail provides groupware functions like email, SMS, diary, pinboard and instant messaging. You can read and write your emails on any workstation using the NetMail client software for Windows, and emails can be stored and searched in shared and private archives for later access.

Even while you are out and about, you still have access to the emails arriving at your office. Use your smartphone to read and write emails using POP3/SMTP, or a web browser for the web mail interface. Or use the mobile NetMail client to dial your server via ISDN, TCP/IP, GSM, GPRS or UMTS: With its highly optimized compressed protocol, connection volume and time is minimized.

Together with the CapiFax and CapiCall software NetMail can form a complete Unified Messaging System (UMS) so that voice messages or faxes can be forwarded as emails, or to send emails to any fax number. Using a GSM modem with a serial port even mail to SMS and SMS to mail is possible.

Spell checker, private and shared mail archives, a keyword-driven personal autoresponder, MAPI support for third-party programs, automatically sending files at specified times by email (e.g. log files) and many other features are built into NetMail. Check out the free add-ons also, like an SMTP module for direct email reception.

NetMail consists of two main components - the client software which can be used in a LAN or also externally e.g. via GSM to read and write emails, and the gateway software running on a PC in your office. The LAN clients are not installed separately on each workstation but loaded over the network neighbourhood (autosync.exe) from the NetMail folder.

The gateway software consists of four programs. The mailer typically fetches all emails from a catch-all POP3 account at your Internet provider and sends your emails using SMTP. The mail router places the fetched mails into personal mailboxes, using the To/Cc/Bcc header lines. The SMS module allows sending and receiving SMS messages. The transfer module is only required on the server if mobile NetMail clients are used.

The NetMail client software is launched from a shared network drive and thus do not need a separate installation on each workstation. You can also use POP3/SMTP-based programs like Outlook, Thunderbird or smart phones in parallel.