> * IMail needs to block users from adding 50 aliases
agreed, Imail should defend itself better.
ditto for SMTP AUTH process not being able to kick itself back into action.
>* SQL7 Support, SQL2000 is almost out already. What is the hold-up?
agreed, mailsite & vopmail do better here.
>Every product under the sun supports SQL7
one of the top is CommuniGate Pro from www.stalker.com, but no SQL at
all, afaics.
>* SMTP service constantly crashing on certain message files and
>hanging ALL SMTP traffic until that corrupt message file is removed.
agreed, Imail should defend itself better. one bad msg shouldn't
crater the entire server. At least have a msg parsing/cleaning tool
so we wouldn't have to clear it ourselves.
>told me to delete all 8,000 messages from today and yesterday out of the
>spool directory and that it should fix the problem.
vbg. Sound like MS tech support: reformat / re-install.
>* ADDUSER.EXE - Honestly, how hard is it to have ADDUSER.EXE add
>host admin privileges to a user? We're talking about adding a single
>character to the registry/database.
Agreed, but Ipswitch could make a point about security here. But I
don't know what their point really is. But they should make this
gun, and let us shoot ourselves.
>* ETRN support working correctly. I've been through this once, but
>here it is again. Lets say you have 30 normal domains setup in IMail and
>10 domains setup for ETRN (NOT SETUP IN IMAIL, JUST THE HOSTS FILE AS IT'S
>SUPPOSED TO BE). Now, turn on "Relay for Local Hosts Only" and all
>the ETRN customers email bounces all over the place and never gets
>delivered.
Here I can't agree. They've made the relay options mutually
exclusive. ETRN's only security is the ip address since "ETRN
domain.com" is so spoofable, not Imail's fault. So to have ETRN for
an ip address (NT hots file), the relay option is exclusively "relay
for addresses", not, as you found out, "Local Hosts". You know that
relaying for local hosts users will get you blackholed, so simply don't use it.
* Standardized Web Interface such as .ASP Files calling a DLL or
>ODBC connection to modify users/domains so modifications can tie in
>with other modules instead of the proprietory Web Messaging Interface.
And API is needed, but of course this increases their support (to
developers) costs, way above what it would cost them to develop it.
>* Better Web-Templates - Our development department would be more
>than happy to design a nice set and give them to IPSwitch if that's
>what it takes.
Imail's templates are butt-ugly, but this is an artistic/taste
issue. 3rd party template providers are doing well, eg, the
reasonably priced and generally pleastn HKSI templates, plus various
freebies around. I'd much rather Ipswitch work on technical rather
than artistic issues which wouldn't please everybody anyway.
I add :
1) Web messaging server hostable on a machine separate from the SMTP
+ mailbox server, so web messaging http server wouldn't clog up
SMTP/POP3/IMAP traffic.
2) Imail as LDAP client to an external LDAP database.
3) getting greedy, external accounts database support for postgres + mysql.
Imail 7 should be out by year end, I wonder if their feature set is
already frozen?
Len
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