RED LETTER EMAIL SERVER PREVENTS DOWNTIME WITH NEW DUAL REDUNDANCY CAPABILITY

Cluster option enables continuous secure, auditable, recorded delivery email

Meticulus Solutions today announced a dual redundancy option for its Red Letter secure email server. This prevents downtime and ensures business continuity for sending and receiving secure, confidential and auditable email. Available now, the solution has already been installed by international law firm Watson, Farley & Williams.

The Red Letter dual redundancy solution pairs two connected servers to provide automatic failover in the unlikely event of either becoming unserviceable. This enables normal secure email operations to continue without interruption.

Based around a secure server appliance situated within the senders firewall, Red Letter eliminates the security and confidentiality problems inherent in current email systems, without causing any disruption to either the sender or those receiving the email. Emails can be sent from any mail application, without having to install additional software and can be received in any SSL capable web browser.

Red Letter eliminates the weaknesses in conventional email and our customers rely on it for continuous secure, confidential and auditable communications," commented Gordon Olson, chairman, Meticulus Solutions. Because secure email is a mission-critical application we have now introduced safeguards against downtime caused by hardware failures. The new Red Letter dual redundancy solution achieves this in a straightforward and cost-effective manner, whilst retaining our tight integration with MessageLabs world leading anti-virus and anti-spam scanning services."

The Red Letter email server has enjoyed a fast take-up since its launch in January 2003, with legal customers such as Bevan Ashford, Silverbeck Rymer and Watson, Farley & Williams adopting the system already. This highlights the need amongst law firms for a simpler solution to sending documents securely to replace the older, laborious post, fax and courier systems in place at many businesses.

We have adopted Red Letter to enable our staff and clients to send and receive email securely and easily," said Richard Latham, Head of IT, Watson, Farley & Williams. As we rely heavily on Red Letter we cannot afford the remote possibility of downtime, meaning that the dual redundancy system is a perfect fit for our needs, safeguarding our vital email traffic."

Red Letter uses a secure server appliance situated within the senders firewall. Emails are composed as normal, and simply tagged to be sent by recorded delivery. Recipients then receive a notification email telling them they have new mail ready for collection and inviting the entry of a previously agreed password. On successful entry recipients receive their 128 bit SSL-secured email and any attachments in their web browser, ready to be printed or securely downloaded. The sender gets an automatic receipt once the email is accessed. No additional software is installed and emails are protected using industrial strength encryption. Password-protected audit logs on the server keep full records of all secure emails sent.

A Red Letter dual redundant server is priced at 4,200, with only a single Thawte digital certificate costing 300 required for the total system. An upgrade to make an existing Red Letter server dual redundant is available at 2,100.

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About Meticulus Solutions
Meticulus Solutions develops and provides affordable, easy to use secure communications and document management systems. It offers two products -- Red Letter and Meticulist. Red Letter is a ubiquitous secure email system that can be deployed without needing any new software on either the senders or recipients PCs while Meticulist is the first document management system aimed at small and medium sized businesses.

Meticulus is based in Wiltshire, UK and boasts a management team with over 50 years experience in the IT industry. More information on Red Letter can be found at www.redletteremail.com