| Product Name: Microsoft MS Mail | Average | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| WT. | Rating | SCORE | |
| ADMINISTRATION | |||
| Rules | 10 | 9 | 90 |
| Admistration Tools | 10 | 5 | 50 |
| Read Network Bindery | 9 | 7 | 63 |
| High-level Security | 6 | 7 | 42 |
| Limits on Message Size | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Limits on copies | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| Delay message delivery | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| Auto-delete by date | 9 | 8 | 72 |
| Global Distribution Lists | 10 | 9 | 85 |
| - Hierarchy Dist. Lists | 8 | 4 | 32 |
| - If user deleted, will Dist. lists still work | 10 | 8 | 75 |
| Sub-Total: | 562 | ||
| FUTURE: | |||
| Scheduling | 7 | 8 | 58 |
| Bulletin Boards | 9 | 6 | 52 |
| Discussion DBs | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| Multi-media | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Runs on Unix | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| Sub-Total: | 201 | ||
| EASE OF USE: | |||
| Creating a Message | |||
| - Looking Up Addresses | 10 | 8 | 84 |
| - Formatting Msg. Text | 9 | 8 | 70 |
| - Spellcheck | 8 | 9 | 70 |
| - Thesaurus | 8 | 7 | 57 |
| - Saving Msg. as a Draft | 10 | 7 | 74 |
| - Carbon Copies | 5 | 8 | 39 |
| - Printing the Message | 8 | 9 | 70 |
| - Attaching a file | 10 | 7 | 73 |
| - OLE | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| - Cut/Paste from other Apps. | 10 | 9 | 90 |
| - Auto Copy of Msg. to Folder | 8 | 7 | 53 |
| - Sending the Message | 10 | 8 | 84 |
| - Getting a Receipt Sent Back | 8 | 9 | 69 |
| Receiving a Message | |||
| - Replying to a Message | 10 | 8 | 83 |
| - Forwarding a Message | 9 | 8 | 73 |
| - Resending a Message | 8 | 5 | 40 |
| - Deleting Messages | 9 | 7 | 66 |
| - Retracting a Message | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| - Searching Msgs. | 4 | 7 | 26 |
| - Sorting Msgs. | 5 | 6 | 32 |
| - Reading Attached File within Mail without loading application | 8 | 6 | 51 |
| - Copying a Msg. to a Folder | 5 | 7 | 36 |
| Sub-Total: | 1249 | ||
| MISCELLANEOUS | |||
| - On-Line Tutorial available | 8 | 8 | 64 |
| - DOS Interface | 10 | 8 | 77 |
| - Message Tracking (Work Flow) | 9 | 8 | 68 |
| - Archive to C-drive | 7 | 7 | 52 |
| - Vendor Support | 8 | 7 | 52 |
| - Nicknames | 6 | 7 | 42 |
| - Creating a Folder | 7 | 9 | 63 |
| - Absence Messages | 10 | 9 | 90 |
| - User assigning another user to read/reply to their mail | 10 | 8 | 80 |
| - Ability to create forms | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| - Rules creation by user | 10 | 6 | 62 |
| - Private Distribution List | 10 | 8 | 84 |
| - Able to exclude specific users when sending to a Distribution List | 8 | 9 | 68 |
| MS Office Compatible | 7 | 9 | 63 |
| Sub-Total: | 865 | ||
| Grand Total: | 2876 |