I also put together a rather lengthy list of feature requests. I did hear anything back on them either, like you I feel they are disappearing into a black hole somewhere.
I had some of the same requests you did, but one of my big ones, was because of the amount of users we have every time we need to open a users properties we have to enumerate the users folder. That can take a long time, especially if that user has a name that starts toward the end of the alphabet. Instead of just enumerating the users under the users directory have the ability to create subfolders (Kind of Like OU's) under the users folder so you can place folks in folders by the starting letter of their username. This would help with the problem greatly. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Schaible [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:51 PM To: IMail Forum Subject: [IMail Forum] Fwd: Feature Requests Hi guys, Maybe my mail i wrote to ipswitch might be interesting for you. Please give me some feedback, if some of my feature requests are important to you too. ------------------------------------------------ First i like to ask, if i have a chance to get a list with previous feature requests. I like to know, if any feature request will be implemented in one of the next releases. I have the feeling that the feature request are disapearing in a black hole for ever and ever. Here are some new feature requests: 1. ) Killer WebMail displays the Date and Time in the us format only. It should be possible the display the date and time in the local format, set by the Date/time format of the operating system. 2.) The kill list works globally. It should work like the other anti-spam tools: It should be possible to switch it on or off for every domain. 3.) All helpfiles of the WebMail (Classic and Killer) are not localized. This should be changed. 4.) IMail logs into files only. It should be possible, that IMail can log his data into a database. A ODBC/ADO Datasource as the log target should be possible. A analysis of the logs via a database is much more simpler as a silly parsing in text files. This is also very slow. Actually we're copying the logs in a database on a weekly base. It might be very nice, if IMail could to this native. Now i will repeat some important feature request made ages ago (This and last year...). Please provide me some infos, if a feature will be implemented or not. Somebody should know that, i think ;-) 1.) The kill list (file kill.lst) should moved to a different directory. The goal is, that the application directory should not contain any data. A good location might be the data directory of the 'main' host. This means, the same location like the other anti spam files. 2.) Spool and Log-files are stored in the same directory. This is wrong. We would like to have a separate log folder. 3.) To reread updated anti spam files, some services must be restarted. We do that 5-7 times a day. The mail server is unavailable for a very short time, but long enough to get into troubles. i'm asking for a small tool to reread the anti spam files instead of restarting the services. WebMail is able to this, so it should be possible from the command line. 4.) The URL Filter works for html formatted mails only. It should be available for plain text mails also. We have to add domains in the url filter *AND* in the phrase filter. We could save a lot work, if the url filter is independed of the mail format. 5.) The localized packages of the killer webmail is only available via your setup program. I realized, that the killer webMmil uses the same versions of the localized strings like the classic webmail. In fact, they are equal, but the strings of the killer WebMail are more updated, fortunately the german translation is much better now. Please provide a link for downloading the latest versions of the translated files. Please add a version number also. 6.) It is not possible to create a program alias via WebMail. This should be changed. 7.) Since WebMail 8.0x some default personal settings of a user are changed, eg. If a sent mail will be stored in the "send" folder or not. Every user has to change the settings manually. This generated tons of support calls. Please provide a solution to do 'bulk changes' for every domain and globaly. 8.) The daily log does not include the mails refused by the kill list. I have to count all "unacceptable mail address" entries. Silly, isn't it. 9.) This last feature request is a big one: Like other mail systems, IMail is not able to act as a 'hot standby server'. This means, a second mail server acts as a 'mirror', always synchronized with the main server. This feature might be the step into major companies and could generate more business. We do a sync (Files and Registry) with 'home made' tools now. 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