You can install various additional pieces of software that interact with Postfix, which is the MTA that I would recommend available for Linux. Just offhand, I know that Majordomo is bundled with SUSE, which can surely take care of any mailing list needs you have. It has been around for years. I used it 10 years ago, before I started using Imail. Vacation messages and aliases are no problem at all.
None of this is specific to SUSE. You can get all of these free tools and a LOT more in pretty much any standard Linux distro. I only mention SUSE because it is a lot easier to install and set up than most other Linux distros, and there is a wealth of documentation out there (including a new SUSE Linux "Bible", to be published in January). You can probably find the latest SUSE professional distro on the shelves at your local Borders book store for less than $100. The nice thing about buying the packaged version is that you get a couple of operating manuals. Their newest stable release is due in the stores any day now. Obviously, learning Linux itself is quite a learning curve, but $10,000 should buy a lot of learning. :-) If you get stuck, I am POSITIVE that there is someone in your area (or on this list) that will be more than happy to do an on-site or remote Linux install for you for FAR less than the upgrade price that Ipswitch is asking. You should also be able to obtain local support (in a decent sized town, at least) for far less than the annual cost of I-PEEswitch's support contract. Major upgrades for most programs are pretty simple to implement (clicking a couple of buttons in a GUI, and maybe retyping some text .cfg files) and FREE. Postfix will be around for a LONG time, and is light years ahead of Imail in terms of available features and add-ons. The only thing I have found lacking is a decent web interface for admins. It may be out there and I just haven't found it yet though. P.S. If you are really interested in all that workgroup crap, there are a ton of (MUCH better) instant messaging servers available for free on Linux and there are a few collaboration projects on sourceforge.net, although few of them integrate directly with Outlook. William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. http://www.vantekcommunications.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Adding My Own Disgust... > > > > If you don't need the Groupware goodies, you can get the > SUSE base install > for free, which includes a mail server, > web client... Does the SUSE solution cover multiple domain > hosting on the mail server > similar to the way IMail does it? > How about mailing lists and aliases and vacation messages. > > At 10/27/2004 12:47 AM, you wrote: > >All, > > > >I have been using iMail since ver. 4.0 or so, and have spent > literally > >thousands of hours administrating different iMail servers, including > >ones that were bought at my recommendation. In the unfortunate event > >that ipswitch does not do an immediate about-face on this > issue (it HAS > >happened before, when iMail customers have been unrelenting in their > >criticism, so don't give up yet), I will be biting the bullet and > >spending a hundred or so hours coming 100% up to speed with > Linux and > >Postfix. > > > >As many of you already know, there are now numerous Linux > distros that > >make installation of a Linux based server a fairly straight-forward, > >gui-driven proposition. Distros like SUSE (Novell), Mandrake > and Fedora > >can be set up and run by practically anyone, and includes > >self-installing servers such as Postfix. These programs scale much > >better than iMail, can run on servers with much less resources, are > >more stable than anything running on the Windows platform, > and best of > >all are FREE. SUSE and Mandrake have their own turnkey Groupware > >applications that cost less than $1,500 for unlimited users, and at > >least one of them is completely compatible with MS Outlook. You'll > >never have to learn to use a command line to install and maintain a > >Linux server, if it is set up properly. > > > >If you value your time at $60/hr., and it takes you 100 > hours to come > >up to speed on Linux/Postfix, you will save yourself thousands over > >ipswitch's prices. Plus, you can choose from a wider variety of > >anti-spam and anti-virus plugins, most of which are also free for > >unlimited users. If you are really hell bent on Groupware, > you would be > >much better off taking a look at SUSE's OpenExchange > product, which is > >Outlook compatible, has been tested for over a year, is well > >documented, well (and much less expensively) supported (now, by > >Novell), and takes very little Linux knowledge to master. If > you don't > >need the Groupware goodies, you can get the SUSE base > install for free, > >which includes a mail server, web client, web server, DNS server and > >thousands of other free programs, plugins and utilities. If you ever > >needed a reason to start looking into Linux, this is it. > > > >William Van Hefner > >Network Administrator > >Vantek Communications, Inc. > > > > > > > >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/ > > 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/
