RE: [IMail Forum] IIS

[David Lapides]

web msging wont run ASP pages tho.  Let's say hypothetically, I wanted to created my own custom templates or buy another package out there, such as daypoint mail templates.  Those are entirely ASP.  I cant just throw the ASP pages in c:\imail\web because it wont run ASP.  Then what do i do? _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_ Suffer. No, seriously, imail's web messaging works similarly to the way .ASP or Coldfusion does. It grabs a page and runs it through a processing filter and looks for tags (<%   %> for ASP as opposed to the standard <  > html tags). Then it runs some code to replace the tags with addresses, message bodies,etc before sending a stream of HTML to the browser. There's no way to have ASP process the file and then send it to Imail (or vice versa) and since there are two distict processing filters for each of them, there is no way to get them to run concurrently. Since there is no Imail component that you can call from ASP to manage the message store and user database, you would have to create your own system from POP3 and SMTP components. But that's a lot of work. Months of work, in fact. And you wouldn't even be able to administer any of the Imail stuff, just read and send mail. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but it's the best I can tell you. One day, Ipswitch may come out with a component that is callable from ASP, but I wouldn't hold your breath. And if they do, you can bet that they won't be throwing it in for free. Even so, I'd still buy it, if the price was reasonable.