Hong Kong, September 30, 2004 – Bigfoot Communications Ltd., a leading provider of IT services and internet-enabled communications, has announced the launch of its new and enhanced Email Forwarding subscription plans. Email Forwarding is a fast and inexpensive way of keeping in touch with business contacts and friends whether one changed schools, jobs or ISP. It is particularly useful in forwarding and distributing emails to several email accounts.

Apart from the Basic Plan, which is available for free, the enhanced subscription plans are the Premium Plus and Ultra Plus, available for only $9.95 per quarter and $19.95 per quarter respectively. These two new subscription plans, which replace the old Premium and Ultra plans, will come with unlimited number of email messages that can be forwarded per day, including these power forwarding features:

> Distribution – to distribute emails to as many as 20 different accounts.
> Filtering – to reject unwanted emails, acting as another layer of protection against
spam.
> Consolidation – to collect emails from 10 different POP3 accounts.
> Automatic Reminder – to let you receive emails to remind you of important occasions
and appointments.
> Auto-Responder – to let you send automatic reply to received emails while you’re
away.
> Permaweb – to redirect netizens to your site.

Under the new plans, a subscriber will also get a free Bigfoot WebMail account with 2 GB storage space, a vast improvement from the 50 MB and 100 MB storage space under the old Premium and Ultra plans, respectively.

The newest feature introduced is the SMTP Access, which is, however, available only to Ultra Plus subscribers.

Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, SMTP is a standard protocol for sending email messages between servers. Most email systems use SMTP to send messages from one server to another over the Internet. The messages can then be retrieved with an email client (such as Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, etc.) using either POP or IMAP. In addition, SMTP is generally used to send messages from a mail client to a mail server. That is why you need to specify both the POP or IMAP server and the SMTP server in configuring your email application.

To learn more about Bigfoot’s email forwarding services, please visit http://www.bigfoot.com/ef/en/index.jsp

About Bigfoot
Bigfoot Communications is part of the Bigfoot Group, a privately owned group of companies providing IT services, internet-enabled communications and educational products to localized markets worldwide. Having started out as an email forwarding service in 1995, Bigfoot has since grown to be a diverse communications powerhouse. Bigfoot's mission is to simplify and personalize the Web experience for customers. Bigfoot services include email tools, mobile messaging and telephony. For more information on Bigfoot, please visit www.bigfoot.com.


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