William Van Hefner wrote:
x,
Imail certainly was nice while it lasted. I installed ver 4.0 on my very first NT server. Before, I had always relied on outsourcing my hosting. I knew pretty much nothing about how e-mail worked. Imail got me up and running in a few minutes, and I wound up buying the unlimited version for a whopping $500. From $500 to $10,000 in only a few years. Inflation is a bitch, isn't it?
Obviously, moving to Linux is not for everyone. I would say that if you had already been considering moving away from Micro$oft software because of their high prices and endless vulnerabilities, that this may just be the final straw that would justify a wholesale move in operating systems. After all, if you're going to switch mail servers, you might as well switch web servers, DNS servers, etc. as well. They are even easier to maintain as an admin through the use of WebMin, which is sort of a browser-based GUI for a number of popular Linux programs. Their interface for Postfix leaves a bit to be desired, but the interfaces for the Apache web server and BIND DNS server and services/daemons is top rate. You can control most aspects of a Linux server via WebMin, either locally or remotely via a browser.
Anyone who wants a look at what WebMin looks like can go to http://www.webmin.com . There is a live demo available.
William Van Hefner Network Administrator
Vantek Communications, Inc. http://www.vantekcommunications.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of x
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Adding My Own Disgust...
William Van Hefner wrote:
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.
Try postfixadmin at http://www.high5.net/postfixadmin/
Of course, this does use an SQL backend for users.
I don't think anyone would ever even dream of comparing IMail to Postfix. First off, postfix is just an MTA (hands down the best IMO). IMail is a complete package. IMail couldn't dream couldn't even come close to competing with postfix as an MTA. IMGate makes it easy to use them together for those that don't know how already though.
On a personal level there aren't many reasons I could see using IMail over Courier or Cyrus for mailstore. The one thing IMail is good for is ease of use (practically idiot proof windows app).
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