Many of you have posted information detailing the many free and low-cost options for full featured Email systems. Among those detailed, are versions that will run on Windows.
By now it should be quite apparent to all that the 'email system' market that Ipswitch once enjoyed profit in, is now deteriorating since the introduction and proven reliability of these free and low-cost solutions. As a holder of a valid service agreement, Ipswitch is obligated to provide me with support, updates and upgrades until the day my agreement expires. Nothing more. Nothing less. There is nothing implicit in the agreement that states they will be there for me in the years to come. Even when my agreements do expire, despite my disappointment, I've got very nice, already paid for, stable, unlimited user servers that do the job just fine for some time to come. Even better when you use 3rd party tools like our own mxGuard, Computer Horizon's Declude, or the recently touted free hook to SpamAssassin. Some of the folks complaining about Ipswitch are still running 6.x servers. I imagine they, as well as those of us on 7.x and 8.x will still get pretty good usage out of the software for some time to come. The pain will come however, when we wish to expand and no more licenses can be obtained (hold on to them, they might be worth something :) - If IMail is not back on the market as a stand-alone product, the platform change will inevitably become a necessity. It is my hope IMail will be offered again some months down the road. Maybe they can be more profitable if they also charged a per issue or even per minute fee for support after the initial 30 days. instead of a blanket unlimited telephone support as it is now. Anyway, I guess we will be among the few still running IMail in the coming year - waiting for their return :) BTW - You can get a lot more mileage from your now 'obsolete' IMail platform by offloading the outbound mail delivery to a quality mail exchanger like Postfix. Len Conrad has an excellent resource at http://imgate.meiway.com/ Regards, David Gregg dgSoft Internet Services +1.949.584-1514 --- mxGuard for IMail Adds anti-spam *and* anti-virus capabilities to your IMail server. $99 unlimited domains/users. No service agreements. Download and install a free trial version today. http://www.mxGuard.com/Postmaster/FreeTrial.asp --- 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/
