Darin, That's great news. I'm a software developer and I spent 25 years evaluating, recommending, installing, testing, configuring and supporting hundreds (perhaps thousands) of 3rd party software packages.
If you need a smartermail test dummy for your application please count me in. Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Upcoming Pricing. > > Hi Dave, > > We're working on a spam review app one we intend to release in December. > Initially it will be for IMail, but we should be able to release a > SmarterMail version shortly thereafter. It should just be a matter of > minor > configuration changes to work with SmarterMail, so the initial release may > work for it as well. > > We're designing it to have a very flexible architecture to automate many > of > the management tasks related to the spam review process. Many of those > processes are quite painful for us now, so our main motivation for > building > it is to create a flexible system for one or two button/click actions on > messages in the queue. > > We'll announce to the list when it's ready for a public beta since several > have asked about it. > > Darin. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Beckstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:31 PM > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Upcoming Pricing. > > > Hi Travis, > > > > > > How was the migration to SmarterMail? Pretty straight forward? I am > > playing with the demo myself and am very happy with it and the PRICE! I > > can > > afford an email server software again. > > The migration was a breeze using smartermail's utility for migrating from > imail. We did it in one evening. We have about 60 domains. > > > > > > > What add-ons are you using for AV and/or Antispam? Is it included? I > see > > Declude works with the, but it is pricey. I can't justify that expense > > for > > Declude. If I could, then I would have stuck with Imail. > > > We are using Declude Junkmail Pro. Declude works very well. However, I > do > have one major complaint with the declude/smartermail combination. There > is > no way to quickly review held spam for false positives. Therefore, we may > be losing legitimate business email and we have no way to find it or > determine to what extent this is happening. > > Declude has been promising me that "next week" they'll provide me with an > updated version of Spamreview, which is a tool for reviewing the spam > folder > contents. Declude has the source code for the software. Later they told > me > a customer was working on spamreview. Well, needless today, months and > months have passed with no solution and we're left in bad situation. The > work around options we found aren't very practical. > > If you look at a Declude purchase, I recommend you make it contingent on > Declude providing a decent solution for identifying false positives. > > We also use F-Prot to scan for viruses. > > > > > > > Does SmarterMail support connection filtering bypassing the last > machine? > > Meaning if I have a store and forward or a gateway scanner, can > > SmarterMail > > be configured to ignore the last connection and use the one prior to > that > > connection? > > Not sure on that one. We're not set up that way but you could call > smartertools and ask them. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the info....it is helpful in my decision making for the > budget > > bny the end of the month for next year. Unless, as I told Kevin, Imail > > really steps up, my budget is going to be allotted to SmarterTools. > > > > Ipswitch priced themselves out of the market. They had a niche but now > because of the cost they are targeting higher end companies and companies > with deep pockets are probably going to go with exchange anyway. Ipswitch > capitulating to the heat they took is too little to late in my book. > Nothing says they won't stick it to the little guy again in the future. > > You would be happy with smartermail and its affordable and smoking fast > too! > > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
