What is AT&T's contact email?

3rd Party online email client that can be attached to an online contact manager

• We are building an online contact manager for our sales agents. The programmer just added a form to send email from the contact record to a prospect. Great! The form automatically sends a copy of the email to the sales agents email address and email client (which exists outside of the online contact manager: gmail, outlook, yahoo, etc.). Another thing that happens is, the email is recorded to the notes in the contact manager for the given prospect to which the email was sent. Great! The Problem: A return email from the prospect will go to the sales agents regular email and not the contact manager because there is not an email client built in. I want a full fledged online email client built into our contact manager database so both outgoing and INCOMING emails can be attached to given contacts in the database. I'm just wondering if any 3rd party online email clients exist out there that we can customize and program into our online contact manager?

• Answer:

  Dear Jimmo-ga If your sales team is willing to go online for all their mail, here's a free open source solution you can use. http://neocodesolutions.com/ Many webhosts also offer Horde as an online e-mail tool http://www.horde.org/ And also SquirrelMail http://www.squirrelmail.org/ I believe that all of these are open source projects that you can incorporate into your system. Please don't ask me how, or for technical details. I am not a programmer. But my webhosts have usually included one, or all three, with my sites. And that has let me travel anywhere in the world and access my mail. In privacy. I don't use public e-mail systems like Explorer's or Yahoo's or such for sensitive business communications. All let you set up filters, and folder and other parameters. Of course, you can always arrange for your sales force to use something like Eudora on their computers, which allows them to set up any number of personalities/identities/e-mail addresses. They can receive the mail and filter it into specific mail boxes based on criteria you establish - and to respond with the appropriate e-mail address. I have hundreds of filtered boxes on my incoming e-mail. And since I have many e-mail addresses, via Eudora, I can respond using any of them. In addition, using Bcc (blind carbon copy) you can set it up that their responses are also automatically copied back into your database, even if they are not using their online e-mail system. Does that help? Best wishes Your TaxMama-ga http://www.eudora.com/