> If  most  people out there do have some sort of filtering in between
> the internet and their Imail server. . .

I'm  stating,  from community and direct support experience, that most
(51%+)  people  do not. Therefore, the enhancements designed for IMail
MXs are indeed relevant and necessary.

Whether  tabling official Mac support (Firefox on Mac evidently works)
was  a  good idea is another question entirely, and shouldn't be mixed
up  in this. In many of our minds, it shouldn't have been an either/or
scenario,  but that decision was made. Developers, and marketers, make
seemingly  out-of-joint  decisions  like  that  all the time. Still, I
don't  know if they looked at, or estimated, pure numbers, but there's
no  way  that  51%+  of  webmail  end-users  are  on  Macs. If you did
absolutely  have  to  make  a  choice,  then,  the impact of the SMTPD
improvements  will  be  felt by a _much_ larger number of users (since
POP3-  and  IMAP4-only  users,  regardless  of  OS, will also reap the
benefits  of  a  more  efficient  anti-spam engine). Of course, I know
there's  a  difference  between "not seeing improvements" and "utterly
unable  to  use  the new version." But I think your anger is misplaced
given the very real utility of the MX improvements.

> Things  like Brightmail have the ability to throttle the connections
> for you, but it can't use that feature with Imail as they can't talk
> to each other for Brightmail's needs.

Unfortunate,  but  let's  call that what it is: a Brightmail bug! They
shouldn't  claim  to  be  LDAP-compatible  if  they can't log in to an
OpenLDAP,  a standards-compliant LDAPv3 server. My ldap2aliases script
uses  a  standard LDAP API to talk to IMail's OpenLDAP binary, with no
problems.  Other  LDAP  clients  also  are fine with it. Only a janky,
half-implemented  LDAP  lookup  has  problems  with it. Not Ipswitch's
fault.

> I  know  it's  only  the first release, but if the existing features
> doesn't work first go, it doesn't fill you with too much confidence.

I  agree.  If  the webmail doesn't blow you away from IE on a PC, then
you're going to get discouraged. I hope you can resolve this.

--Sandy


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