I'm ruinning iMS, and I can tell you that you do, in fact, have to run iMS
on a CF machine. It's a CF-based application. I'm running it now, and I
love it. Not sure about running on a single user license...that sounds like
it'd work fine, but CF Express? Hmmm...Definitely ask Howie about that one.
Docs are great, it DOES have black hole capabilities, and as for mailing
list stuff, there isn't anything built in, but there is a package (not free)
out there that extends the server's capabilities to include mailing list
managment. Also, a while back Howie had sent me some beta code for list
serve functionailty for what would have been FusionMail/2, which never
shipped. He might still have that code, which should be a good basis to
build your own list server code. Also, I haven't looked at it yet, but
there's a listServ app in the Developers' Exchange at Allaire.com. It might
be something that could be easily modified to work with iMS. Oh...and so
far, Howie's always been really responsive with regards to tech support
issues. That's another reason why I like the software.
Kevin Langevin
Web Guy in Charge
UsWebGuys
954-612-2136
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 8:07 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Mailing List Manager
>
>
> Currently I only have a single box for everything. As soon as I get a free
> second and some spare cash I'm getting an SQL server to do all
> the DB stuff.
> This means that there is a webserver, ColdFusion server and mail
> server all
> on the same box at the moment and it's all running smoothly.
> As for iMS working on a separate box from the CF server, I think
> it needs a
> CF server for part of the processing but because it's all 'local', you can
> probably use the free single user license version as its just not
> going to a
> different IP for its work (in most cases). Actually, I believe
> that you can
> use CF Express as well as long as your just using Access.
> iMS has stuff build in for the black hole and other anti-spam stuff (no
> matter how much I dislike the organizations) and it's simplicity
> to add your
> own to it.
> The main problem with iMS is that some of the more 'advanced'
> features have
> to be built from scratch or bought from others. I'm talking about heavy
> mailing lists and such. The FusionMail program is good enough for
> the basic
> stuff.
> Best to talk to Howie about what features are there and access to
> them. He's
> on the list and is usually very fast with his responses.
>
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > Are you running iMS on the same box as CF and Website? I am
> looking into
> > evaluating a new mail server package and like the iMS concept, but it
> (iMS)
> > would be running on a separate box from the webserver/CF server and I
> wasn't
> > sure if the extended features for CF would be available to it on a
> separate
> > box from the web/CF server.
> >
> > I checked the Cool Fusion web site and found it lacking in iMS details
> such
> > as mail relay, blocking and spam prevention capabilities or
> administration
> > functions and capabilities and requirements.
> >
> > I haven't had much time to download the evaluation copy or compose a
> > reasonably structured query (excuse the pun) to them and was
> hoping to get
> > some real world feedback.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Dennis Powers
> > UXB Internet
> > (203)879-2844
> > http://www.uxbinfo.com/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 2:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Re: (Admin) CF 5 Hot Fixes
> >
> > I've had some lockups but they were all due to some stuff I was
> doing with
> > CFMAIL and the lists. Since moving to iMS in place of CFMAIL it's been
> > smooth sailing. I can't totally blame CFMAIL for it all as I was doing
> some
> > funky stuff with the scheduler, CFMAIL and CFX_Pop.
> > There are a few small issues though especially when it comes to non-IIS
> > webservers. They've got one service that watches the web server
> and cycles
> > it if a problem comes up. Problem is, it's not configured to work with
> > Website and it loads the system log with 3 messages every 10 seconds. I
> > couldn't even turn it off from the registry. Also, the scheduler always
> logs
> > events even when its set not to. A few small issues like that exist but
> all
> > in all it's very stable and fast.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:04 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Re: Mailing List Manager
> >
> > To this list alone we have over 2000 direct subscribers (that is people
> who
> > get mail from the list to their box rather than those on archives,
> > newsgroups, etc.). All of the lists combined equals somewhere over 5000
> > people. This list has about 200 posts a day and CF-Community
> has a little
> > less.
> > All things being equal, iMS has proven to be exceptionally
> solid for what
> > we're doing here. The speed is fantastic, the stability is great and I
> have
> > no problems that I can trace back to iMS. I even like to use it in place
> of
> > CFMAIL as its both more stable and has more features.
> >
> > Michael Dinowitz
> > Publisher: Fusion Authority weekly news alert
> > (www.fusionauthority.com/alert)
> > Listmaster: CF-Talk, CF-Jobs, Spectra-Talk, Jrun-Talk, etc.
> > (www.houseoffusion.com)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Tilbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 7:41 PM
> > Subject: RE: Mailing List Manager
> >
> >
> > > Howie, how many subscribers?
> > >
> > > Peter Tilbrook
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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