What’s Up with the False Advertising?

WrapMail is indeed compatible with the major web-based solutions as we DELIVER to any of these and anyone with a web-based email account can use WrapMail PROVIDED they use an email client to send such as Outlook/Entourage etc. WrapMail works without anything installed on the desktop so the emails must pass through a WrapServer. Google, Yahoo et al COULD have a WrapServer so that also the emails sent from their respective websites would be wrapped but they currently do not. They do offer IMAP download to an email client and NOW we can Wrap it.

I am sorry if that was unclear - I'll be happy answer any other questions.

Thanks for the clarification Rolv. I'll make an update

Hi Sam,

In both cases, I am not certain that the problem is truly false advertising (at least on the part of the company).

The Tech Crunch article links to a video demo of their software that uses the iPhone so one would think the iPhone is supported right now. However, right below the demo it clearly states that the iPhone version will be upcoming. On their site, they are not hyping it in any significant way. So, whose fault is this and is this false advertising? Perhaps a tad but I don't see it as a major intentional problem because it is not a launch article (ie. saying something is available when it is not) and the fact that it clearly states in that first paragraph that the iPhone version will be available soon.

In the second, I don't see any problems at all. There two pieces to their solution (sending and receiving) and the two don't need to be the same. They require you to have the ability to change your outgoing SMTP email settings so that your regular mail can be processed by their email servers. So, you need to be able to control that setting so it works with desktop solutions and web-based solutions where you have that ability. This would not include Yahoo mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc because you cannot control how your outgoing mail is processed.

As for the press release, it states it supports those free web-based services...on the receiving end. In other words, the way it puts HTML around your message and how it is displayed will work in all email readers that basically support the display of HTML email. And it also clearly states that you need to be able to change the outgoing mail settings so in this case, I think you simply had a bit of a misunderstanding. ;)

-jc
http://jccameron.com/

@JC

I agree it's more a misunderstanding than false advertising -- that
said these guys are launching products so if ever there were a time to
be clear it would be now.

As an aide, the iPhone clarification is freshly added -- it was not
there yesterday.

Sam

Hi:

Thanks for taking the time to read my reply and dig deeper. I would be more than happy to give a more detailed overview on how we, without anyone changing any routines, take advantage of the fact that businesses have websites and employees that send emails. WrapMail becomes a complete Marketing tool: Branding, Advertising, cross-selling, up-selling, Research through various "click reports" etc.

After all, we're all sending these emails every day anyway so why not use them to deliver more people to our only store reachable from anywhere and open 24/7: our website.

Ho Rolv -

I will take you up on that offer! I think it's a great idea and I am
happy to write about it if in fact it it is usable with Gmail and
Yahoo

You can ping me at: sam dot huleatt at gmail dot com

ping sent

Thanks for the good and useful update information. Actually i also belong from an advertising company which offers world wide advertising. So we should keep it.

Thanks again
Manoranjan
http://www.worldwideadvertisingnetwork.com