The lifehacker blog asks its readers to cast their vote for the best email client.

We’re interested in email clients, the tools you use to access and process your email—not so much the actual email provider. In some cases the line between client and provider is very distinct: Outlook is strictly a client that you must access an email server to use. In other cases the line is less distinct. Gmail, for example, is both an email service provided by Google and a web-based email client that you could use to manage other web and server-based email accounts (so it would still count). When placing your vote for your favorite tool please keep that in mind: we want to hear about your favorite client, not service.

I’m curious to see if webmail interfaces will win over rich-clients.

Click here to vote in the comments section of LifeHacker using this format: VOTE: [your_favorite_email_client]

Kudos to our team here at Permessa. Everyone worked extra hard and many long hours over the last few weeks to get the newest release of Permessa Control! out the door just in time for Lotusphere.

Permessa Control! v6 is the Most Comprehensive Monitoring, Reporting and Compliance Solution for IBM Lotus Domino and Lotus Sametime available today.

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL. (PR WEB) January 18, 2010 – New versions of the award-winning Permessa Control! products were announced today by Permessa Corporation at Lotusphere in Orlando, Florida. These products enable enterprises to both lower costs and improve compliance with their mission-critical messaging systems. Permessa Email Control! won the 2009 Lotus Award for Best Tool or Utility and was a finalist for the prestigious 2009 IBM Beacon Award. Permessa IM Control! was a finalist for the 2009 Lotus Award for Best Collaboration product.

See the full announcement here.

IBM Lotus just recently released Lotus Traveler 8.51 which provides support for a wide range of mobile devices, but most importantly the iPhone.

I’m sure there was a collective sigh amongst Domino admins, getting their iPhone touting execs back onto corporate email. But the catch-up game continues, as the cool new Droid arrives on the scene. Traveler doesn’t yet officially support Android devices, although both Traveler and Android have ActiveSync support. Ed Brill mentioned on his blog that Android support is coming, but what to do in the meantime? There are a number of 3rd party apps that can bridge the gap – Touchdown by NitroDesk is one of them.

The droidStory blog has a post on how to get it working and the trade-offs and compromises of the solution.

Cisco announced today at its Collaboration Summit the launch of new enterprise collaboration products that further round out its already strong portfolio of IP telephony, real-time collaboration and media server solutions.  The new products include hosted email and social networking for the enterprise and puts Cisco in direct competition with Microsoft, IBM, Google and many other start-ups.

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A recent ethical phishing experiment shows a surprising 100% success rate on bypassing anti-spam filters. The experiment highlights how simple, small-scale spear-phishing campaigns easily bypass corporate security filters and that users continue to take the bait.

This scenario was an invitation from Linkedin, posing as an invitation from Bill Gates to join his network. Linkedin was selected due to availability, and the fact that it is a social network recognized by most executives. This selection of Linkedin was also based on the fact that linked-in email should be already identified by most existing email system(s), and this may have helped delivery through into the mailbox.

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This almost feels like a mobile blog now, two entries in a row about new smartphone arrivals.  Verizon is gearing up to stem the tide of iPhone-envy-induced subscriber defections.  The mobile company officially announced today the launch of the highly anticipated Droid smartphone from Motorola, on November 6th.

Droid will sell for $199, presumably with a new 2 year contract, no information yet about deals for existing subscribers.  The features are impressive, especially considering the very competitive price tag when compared to the price of much lesser devices.

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