Have you tested IMail v8.0 yet with Declude?
No -- as far as I know, the beta testing hasn't begun yet (although Ipswitch does have it running on their own mailservers now).
It has built-in anti-spam functionality from what I hear. Is this going to have an adverse effect on your product.
Well, "hear" is the key word here. Does "hear" mean "full featured anti-spam product bundled with IMail at no cost", "very basic anti-spam functionality at high cost", etc? Right now, I'm looking at a box for IMail v6.0 that has a quote on the side "Stopped the spam dead cold." :)
A year and a half ago, Ipswitch came out with IMail AntiVirus, and Declude has fared quite well. We even have some people who pay for a year with IMail AntiVirus, and switch to Declude before their year is up, because of problems where the mail delivery stops occasionally. As you know, that isn't an issue with Declude -- mail delivery won't stop with Declude. For mission critical mailservers, that's a big issue.
Also, it's important to remember that (aside from filtering/rules) Ipswitch doesn't have much anti-spam experience. We started selling anti-spam software over 5 years ago. It takes a lot of time to develop anti-spam software that works well. For example, does the DNS engine that Ipswitch uses with IMail handle TXT records?
If you are correct that v8 will have built-in anti-spam functionality, it most likely won't be very full featured (if they aren't going to be making money off of it, it may end up like the built-in mailing list functionality), so people will still need Declude JunkMail, whether or not they upgrade to v8. If it is a separate add-on, it is likely that it will be similar to the situation now with AV software (a product with fewer features at a high cost).
In any case, we've been through this before, and can do it again. :)
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