I think the consensus has been that there are several good alternatives, most with more or better features. Some are
Kerio MailEnable MDaemon Merak SmarterMail MailEnable and SmarterMail are newer on the market, extremely inexpensive, and seem to be adopted by smaller shops or small businesses that want to run their own mail server. I'm going to play with SmarterMail as a possible gateway just to get familiar with it. I did a MailEnable install last week and the features seemed to compare well with IMail, though I can't say how stability and reliability compare. My main beef was lack of flexibility for spam control. If MailEnable added a weighting parameter for the blacklists like SmarterMail has, I'd feel much better about it. I have the same beef with IMail, but Declude gives us the control we need. However, MailEnable does have a nice facility for hooking into the mail delivery process, and there are several free add ons (most are VBS scripts) that allow for conditional attachment blocking and inbound/outbound mail archiving. The first of those two we do with Declude on our IMail servers, but the second is a nice example of the hooks in MailEnable, and something we can't do with our current IMail/Declude configuration. There is a hook for SpamAssassin, but I haven't tried it yet. MailEnable also has a nice looking, skinnable webmail interface. Merak and Kerio seem to be on the order of the old IMail pricing, and are stable products from larger companies that have been around a while. In the end, spam fighting is keeping us tied to the IMail/Declude combo for a while yet. Once Declude launches their MTA-independent version we'll reevaluate and probably settle on MailEnable or SmarterMail, with Declude. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Zeltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 1:39 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Watching with dismay I rarely post to this forum but lurk and read. We have used Imail for many years and have had few problems, however the attitude displayed by Ipswitch has forced us to consider moving on when our support agreement is over. It is a tragedy when a vendor abandons it's supportive user base and only when jogged by reality makes a token reconsideration. Has anyone done the analysis of other Mail server options available and come up with alternatives that are as easy to maintain with similar features? What products are the best to consider? 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/
