Re: [IMail Forum] IMAP Too Broken?

[Jim Jones, Jr.]

we have about 2600 accounts on our imail server... there are about 10 people that use imap day-in and day-out and we have never had a complaint about anything not working....   jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Shadix To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:22 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMAP Too Broken? What do you mean when you say "One open IMAP session will not allow any POP3 activity on the server"?    I have exactly one IMAP user (me) and no one has ever had any problems with POP3. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Wolf / CompuSystems Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMAP Too Broken? IMAP has never worked correctly on IMail.  If you do use it you are allowing one user to create a DoS on your own server.  One open IMAP session will not allow any POP3 activity on the server.    Ipswitch continues to try and add new features, and go to newer versions, but I would prefer that they get ONE version working properly before moving on.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Madscientist To: IMail_Forum@list. ipswitch. com 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