Wayne wrote, > If you have had great success with teh NT 4 server. ( I as well run NT > 4) Keep it alive, and do as Raymond has > suggested, This way you will have the time to configure the new server, > with little or no down time due to error. > As if you have never messed with the Win2k server, it is going to take > you a little while to get your feet wet in it. > With you NT 4 system still kicking over there, you will not have to > worry about pulling your hair out, worring about > the customers driving you crazy because they can send/receive email due > to the upgrade.
While I appreciate the "If it ain't brike, don't fix it" philosophy, one must stay reasonably current. (MS-DOS 6.2 wasn't broken, yet I doubt that many are sticking to it today!) More to the point, though, what you are suggesting is that Andy should buy a new server and an additional license (with or without a Service Agreement) for IMail Server to run on the new W2K box (which you implicitly don't trust). And which version of IMail would Andy end up buying? IMail server 7.x because 6.06, to my knowledge, is no longer available from Ipswitch or their partners. (I'm not going to address the gray market issues here.) Moreover, the new accounts that will reside on the W2K/IMail 7.x box may well be part of the same domain(s) that the NT4/IMail 6.06 is hosting. You now have a new issue: Two mail servers hosting the same domain(s). It can certainly be done but it represents another potential area for problems. I wonder if all the above seems any "safer" than simply upgrading NT4 to W2K on the existing server and leaving (trusted) IMail 6.06 handle all the accounts, existing and future... Guy To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
