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So I upgraded from ICS 2.01 to 2.02 to
apply the fix for the SMTP bug (essentially Imail 8.21 to 8.22 with a few bells
and whistles).
The installer wouldn’t allow me to JUST
install Imail 8.22, no, I had to upgrade every component at the same time. Not
too big a deal if everything worked. I decided to not renew my service contract
as after all the jumping around at IpSwitch I felt like keeping things stable
while I hunt down an alternative. Long story short, WorkGroupShare, the
collaboration function, stopped working right. It’d time out after trying to
get multiple entries from a shared calendar. Tried restoring the Access95 Database it’s
built on (aaaagh), wasn’t the database, was the software. So I try to install
the old software… NOPE. You’ve got to uninstall 2.02, then
reinstall 2.01 completely. Imail, IM, and WGS. Forget THAT. Installed 2.01 on my PC, copied the
directory structure over to the Mail server, and it finally is working. That’s the most idiotic installation
procedure I’ve ever dealt with. The 3 components obviously aren’t version
dependent, and it made NO sense that to upgrade the mail server to 8.22 would
require upgrading the other 2 components at gunpoint. I must give credit where it is due though,
thanks Tripp and everyone who made sure that 8.22 could be patched. I just
wish ICS hadn’t been planned out on a diner napkin, I’d might have considered
an upgrade to 2006 then. Thanks, Sam |
