Since Imail is a Windows product IIS is not propriety... Every version of Windows that Imail can run on comes with IIS for free.
Not every, but most. :) The bigger problem is forcing people to run IIS if they want web messaging. We don't want to run IIS here -- it's too much of a security risk. But we're OK running web messaging. Looking at the hits on a web site we run in-house shows 2 IIS-related hack attempts within the past 4 hours. That's not unusual, that's normal for a web site.
This way Ipswitch could concentrate on an email client instead of trying to write a web server.
Actually, that's backwards. They've already written the web server and fine-tuned it; it's done. You're asking for a complete re-write in ASP, so they would have to focus on the web interface rather than other more important issues.
And as far as the current webmail, how many people complain about it being slow or taking 100% CPU? I have never had that happen on any of my IIS servers. That is because IIS is a proven reliable web server that many of the busiest sites on the net use.
I've seen IIS be extremely slow. It depends on what you are doing with it. IMail will still need to access .mbx files that often get to 100s of megabytes in size. IIS is indeed very reliable, but it can't make up for code that is inherently slow.
I just think that overall many people could benefit from the change.
I won't argue with that. :)
However, it's also true that almost anything that could be done with ASP could be done with IMail's web messaging, with some creativity. I've seen the seemingly impossible done with web messaging.
-Scott
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