RuPost: Desktop X Mail Client

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2024: Desktop X View

On December 3, 2024, RuPost (part of Astra Group) announced the launch of a full-featured cross-platform email client Desktop X. The solution is focused on the enterprise segment and represents a single point of access to mail and other IT resources of organizations, runs on different client operating systems, maintains familiar user experience and usability.

The increased need for Russian mail clients for PCs is due to import substitution processes in most companies in the country. At the same time, customers need a mail client that will not only support the habits of corporate users, but also make it possible to work in the "era of change," when both server and client platforms from different manufacturers coexist in the organization.

Desktop X is based on the technologies and developments of other RuPost products - WorksPad and RuPost Desktop. Like the WorksPad mobile client, Desktop X works simultaneously with various mail servers of the organization through an intermediate management server and using its own client protocol. This solves one of the tasks of companies that are afraid to "open up" standard protocols, such as IMAP or CalDAV. And like the free RuPost Desktop, this product gives users wide functionality of the mail client in combination with the usual user interface and application experience.

At the same time, unlike RuPost Desktop, the presented solution is not limited to just postal functionality, in fact, it is a superapp on a PC. The product provides the ability to develop and run corporate gadgets within itself, and also supports the corporate catalog of such mini-apps. These technologies allow you to easily create to integrate clients in Desktop X with other enterprise systems, including, for example, communication applications messengers and, AEROSPACE FORCES or other enterprise systems, or an additional one for ON individual tasks. This approach unifies scenarios on PCs with different operating systems and mobile devices with WorksPad clients, makes it easier to apply approaches BYOD in the organization to not only mobile devices, but also PCs, and also simplifies the processes of switching to new platforms at. import substitution

Server-side management policies provide the ability to better control data and reduce the risk of operational information leakage.

We continue to develop a range of solutions for the employee's digital workplace. Many enterprises and organizations carry out projects to replace both server solutions and client workplaces. This leads to a "zoo" both on the side of corporate information systems and on the side of client software. Infrastructure replacement and migration have never been instant, there will always be a period of coexistence. And if you add the perceived lack of client applications for new platforms, and the continuing trend towards BYOD, especially in the context of remote work, then the task of quickly providing the employee with functional managed client software for basic services looks like a challenge, "said Sergey Makaryin, Development Director of RuPost. - Our goal is to develop such a set of Digital Workplace solutions that will cover this need. Starting once with the universal mobile workplace WorksPad for phones, we have transferred this ideology to desktops. And our Desktop X product fully reflects the idea of ​ ​ client superapps for any platform, with the necessary basic services and convenient ways to integrate other services or expand functionality by including widgets. Adding to this control of all types of clients and data flows from a single middleware server, as well as our own RuPost mail server, we get a good basis for building an enterprise Digital Workplace.