----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:46 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] IMAP Too
Broken?
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
