Norm, Thanks for your astoundingly in-depth reply and your indulgence in this issue. Welcome to the list!
> Just a rough estimate would be fine, but how much would the DLL + > documentation cost? No real concept at this point, but your spending estimate per server would likely be met. An unlimited license would probably have to be more than your projection, as some people have 100+ servers. > C++ COM DLL that works with MS SQL 2K/Registry. We would need > documented methods and properties that allows us to add/edit/delete > every stored value. The DLL is not now, and isn't planned to be, a COM DLL. It's a C library (xproc) for SQL, since that's the speediest way of embedding additional functionality server-side. It would ship with (encrypted) procedures and triggers, and a GUI manager to add the appropriate SQL extensions for domains of your choosing. > As for support, as long as the documentation provides test code for > enough scenarios and there are no install problems, we won't need > any...some short trial-period would be nice for benchmark and > testing. Support would certainly be offered (via private mailing list), and we wouldn't ship anything without a public beta period. > As a bonus, we would probably spend more (much more) if the > components also allowed for the reading and sending of mail. Unfortunately, this isn't going to happen, as the best route to this stuff is through the Imail COM API, which is itself undocumented and is said to be not ready for prime time (Imail itself doesn't use the COM methods). Can I ask what general purpose you see for such objects being exposed on SQL Server? Or did you just need a general window into this functionality that doesn't use POP3? > Or if you're going the open source route Afraid not: rent to pay, kids to feed, et al. > We might want to check if IPSwitch is either working on that already I hope someone will speak up, if so! > or if they have a problem with the reverse engineering of their data > store. Somehow, the reverse engineering of Registry keys doesn't seem likely to be a problem. :))) But here it is on the list for all to see. Thanks again for your help, Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
