Hi Martin, We used Imail as a gateway for a few clients for several years, and generally it was worry-free.
We don't promote this service, but was an accommodation for our existing clients who were previously hosting mail with us, and decided to migrate to their own server in house. Because most small companies don't have internet connection redundancy, we offered this store-and-forward service to improve their mail server reliability. This has worked a little too well as our Imail server is so reliable, that a couple of our clients who moved to an in-house Exchange solution ultimately decided to resume their mail hosting with us. Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Schaible > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 8:44 AM > To: Daniel Armstrong > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail as an AntiVirus and AntiSpam Gateway > > Hi Daniel, > > I agree, that a stand-alone anti-virus/anti-spam solution in front of > Imail is the perfect > solution. > > We have to work with our existing hardware & software. The deal is not big > enough to have > a reason to buy more toys. > > This is the reason, why I'm asking if anybody realized a gateway with > IMail only ;-) > This gateway is in fact our regular mail server. > > ============================================ > Am Donnerstag, 9. September 2004 um 16:19 schrieben Sie: > > > Hi Martin, > > > We offer store and forward services for a handful of clients, and we've > also > > found that it was easier, more effective, and cheaper to do this with a > > different product than Imail. The biggest problem we had with using > Imail > > (as configured in KB) is that we were accepting 'all' mail for the > domain > > (like having a 'nobody' alias, and all associated headaches). All of > that > > mail was re-directed to the destination mail server and delivered or > bounced > > (more commonly). > > > I also agree that there are significant benefits to using a stand-alone > > anti-virus/anti-spam solution in front of Imail. We've been using > Alligate > > (www.alligate.com) for several months with good success. It's helped us > keep > > the load off Imail, it has allowed our users to have better control over > the > > contents of their inbox with out administrator intervention, and it's > been > > very helpful to have a gateway that allows us to more easily re-direct > mail > > as needed. > > > The only downside we've found occurs when the destination mail server is > > unreliable. Alligate will queue messages that can't be delivered if the > > destination server is unreachable, and attempt delivery periodically, > but if > > the destination mail server is up and down intermittently, the queue may > get > > very large and problems ensue. > > > Daniel > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:12 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail as an AntiVirus and AntiSpam Gateway > >> > >> Martin, > >> > >> Our IMail server is working as a backup MX for several maildomains, > >> removing > >> viruses and tagging spam at the same time. > >> > >> As a dedicated Antivirus and Antispam Gateway, I would definitely > >> recommend > >> other (cheaper, better suited, latest technology) products. Just to > name a > >> few: > >> > >> IMGate by Len Conrad http://imgate.meiway.com (Free, Unix based) > >> XWall by Dataenter.co.at http://www.xwall.us (Server licensed, Win32 > >> based) > >> > >> Last monday, I asked Ipswitch when they would implement the latest > >> antispam > >> technologies (SPF, Greylisting and SURBL). Tech support answered that > they > >> "expect to see SPF" in IMail, but there is no time frame. > >> > >> Marius > >> ------------ You wrote: > >> On of our IMail server should act as an AntiVirus and AntiSpam Gateway > for > >> an external server. > >> > >> > >> 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/ > > > > > 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/ > > ============================================ > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen > > -------------------------------------------- > Merlin Consulting > Martin Schaible > Bahnhofstrasse 27 > CH-8702 Zollikon > > Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 > Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 > > Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch > Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch > > GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 > -------------------------------------------- > News - Neue Produkte: > > .:. 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