I moved some of the domains I host in Imail to Smartermail. I run 17 domains
and 230 users in Smartermail running Declude Antivirus and Junkmail.
I took me half day to figure out how the migration tool works and how to
migrate domains from time to time and not all at once.
The migration worked almost fine. I don't use IMAP. I don't recall exactly
but I remember having problems with some alias since I did rename a couple
of domains prior to the migration and then rename them back in smartermail.
Nothing to worry about.. But I don't recall what it was exactly.
I followed instructions to install declude under smartermail and it was
pretty easy to setup. I used same configuration I used in Imail (copy paste
files), making sure I changed paths to reflect new smartermail paths in the
declude necessary config files.
Some Declude actions doesn't work in Smartermail. Declude can give you
details about it, or you can read their product manuals. They will tell you
what features or actions don't work in smartermail.
My opinion.
1. I am very happy with the webmail interface and webmail administration. My
users are more than happy with it.
2. Domain administrators have said that they feel they have a powerful
administration tool (webmail interface)
3. To understand how it works is not that hard. But it nees time and
dedication to get hold of all the important details within the server in
order to administer Smartermail properly.
4. I am not exactly thrill about their logs. They use 3 logs (POP, SMTP and
Delivery -probably they have Imap log, but I don't use it-). In my personal
opinion, Imail delivered far better and deeper information in their logs.
Declude logs are fully compatible with smartermail logs in order to track
down a message. Very useful.
5. Smartermail version 3 has now more new and innovative features than
Imail. Obviously there are some that only Imail has, but for me Smartermail
now does the job.
6. Smartermail support team is very open to suggestions and to help you out
with problems.
I am still hesitating on moving the remaining base of users and domains,
primaraly because of some administration features I require to better
administer my domains and userbase, something I am asking Smartermail to
consider. Secondly because I am afraid Smartermail cannot handle the load I
require, which seems to be pretty small, but I haven't had the chance to
read or talk to any one using Smartermail with the load I use to confirm how
stable it is. Imail has been very trustable and stable since the time I
first installed it 4 years ago, I process 40K messages per day (About 4000
users and 300 plus domains).
If you have specific questions just shoot. I will be more than happy to
answer them.
Regards
-Luis Arango
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> Timothy C. Bohen
> Sent: Lunes, 20 de Febrero de 2006 11:46 a.m.
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] imail to smartermail migration
>
> I figure this is one of the better places to get real 3rd
> party opinions on this topic.
>
> I'm getting more and more fedup with Imail, I was hoping 2006
> would improve things but from the sounds of it, it may be
> worse then 8.x.
>
>
> Who has made the move from imail/declude to smartermail/declude?
>
> How did it go? Whats your opinion post move?
>
> I can go into my problems with imail, but I have so many I'm not sure
> where to start.
>
> But here are some of the big ones.
>
> - Slow performance
> - Real bad webmail performance
> - Weird behavior, SMTP stops randomly, queue pileups occur randomly
> - Bugginess of new versions is scary..
>
>
> Thanks
>
> >
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