For collaborative functionality I can certainly understand the desire for Exchange. Microsoft made it easy for small companies to bring up a mail server. Unfortunately many don't know how to run them. We've helped many a company straighten out their Exchange config issues, and serve as a filtering gateway for a number of them.
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Another Issue I see, it seems like most people using imail are more in providing service for others than for their own internal usage. (ex you host with us, you get x mb for mailbox) We use email internally for our employees. So we have less configurations and require less features. I guess this is why imail is still sitting on out test box On Oct 21, 2008, at 3:52 PM, "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Price is one factor. 8.x has been reliable for years, though some > minor > annoyances were introduced in 8.22 that require service restarts > with some > simple changes. > > Also, I find logging for IMail to be much better than Exchange. Any > company > providing mail services must have good logging. > > Then there's the issue of spam filtering. When we started filtering > back > around 2001, plugins were a common method of providing filtering. > Imail had > much better plugins. While a gateway is the better route for > reliability > reasons, we still use plugins for additional filtering. > > Darin. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:04 PM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Another Issue > > > I have imail on a test system but so far that's where it's been. Our > production servers are all exchange boxes. > > Please don't be offended when I ask/say this ((I don't mean anything > bad by this) it seems that there are a lot of issues with imail each > time a new patch, version or upgrade comes out. What benefits do you > be from imail vs exchange? Besides the cost issue what is imail doing > better than exchange? > > John > > On Oct 20, 2008, at 6:41 PM, "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK, mail is flowing, though still not perfect. I noticed an issue >> earlier >> today and it has been confirmed by a few people. The emails are >> missing the >> "date sent" information. So if I'm looking at the message in >> Outlook, for >> instance, the Date Sent just reads "None". >> >> This isn't critical right now but I want to make sure it isn't part >> of a >> bigger problem. >> >> Todd >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ >> List Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html > > To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html > > > To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html
