I knew that IMAP
on IMail was "clunky" with Outlook... but I had no idea how
bad.
I'm running IMail
with all the latest patches on NT4/SP6a.
I have some
customers who travel, and have tried to use IMAP - a natural
solution.
After only 3 days
(All in their main office - not on the road), they're so upset with the missing
messages and failures that they feel like I've given them a bad deal - even
though I warned them ahead of time that there might be some trouble... In their
minds (and I completely understand) "some trouble" really means "completely
unusable", and I've sold them up the river.
<RANT>
Is IMail's support
of IMAP so broken that I should give up, or are there some things I can do
that will make this reliable. Should I just give up on this whole mess and go
with a different package finally? After all this time, and all the complaints
I've seen on the list (for years) about these problems with IMAP and the rest of
it... it seems like IPswitch is just not interested in making it work (although
they do seem to like to cash our checks)... same with LDAP (now turned off),
email-to-fax (laughable), and the web interface (a lot better with KWM, but
still problematic)... etc, etc...
It's gotten to the
point where the only thing I can reliably ("cough") run on my IMail server is
SMTP and POP3... The rest of it I have to keep turned off unless I want
trouble... and even then I have to watch the thing carefully to make sure it's
still running day-to-day.
It's getting
quickly to the point where I can't bill enough for email service to
break even on the cost of support and maintenance... and I have a
_small_ system w/ high-end customers!!. Hats off to you guys that make this POC
work in a large-scale production environment... let alone free email
services... you're either crazy and don't know it yet, you own an orchard
of money trees, honed your business skills as used car salesmen, or you've
captured the market on umpalumpas to cover your labor costs.
</RANT>
Does anybody have
this (IMAP) working right?
Please
advise.
Thanks,
_M
