[Declude.JunkMail] SmarterMail Features (or lack thereof?)

[Jonathan]

So, we've been looking quite a bit at SmarterMail for the past few 
months ... everyone in here seems to rant and rave about it, wishing 
they had switched sooner. However, when I really dig into it, it seems 
like it's missing a lot of common functionality. Here's a couple 
examples that I confirmed with their tech support:

- There's no way to have an alias launch an EXE (or do anything but go 
to another email address)
- There's no global filters, and no way to create filters automatically 
with web services. Editing the XML directly would require a service 
restart. So it'd need to be entirely manual, or find a way to hook their 
DLLs I guess.
- No way to change the connection banner for IMAP (or smtp or pop3)
- No way to create an address or alias that would allow a user to 
unsubscribe the mailing list by just sending a message there, it *needs* 
to have "unsubscribe" in the subject. I assume this could somehow be 
rigged with some title-rewriting content filter .. ick.

I've seen a few other things that concern me .. some of this stuff is on 
the list, or has been put on the list for the next release, but they're 
shooting for December. So, I guess we should realistically assume 2006.

Any thoughts?
Jonathan
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