For those who missed that very interesting thread at the end of 2002, these links:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg62301.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg61808.html have several of the key posts quoted, along with some of Todd's and my speculations at the time regarding the cause(s) of the NIC issue. We never upgraded to IMail 8, and in testing Merak doesn't seem to have ANY of these issues. :) Compared side by side to the muscular and flexible Merak offering, I'm now struck by how much of Imail frankly seems like an old semester college programming exercise. Certainly well-placed for a mail server in 1996, but now woefully lacking (and even pathetically incompetent in places--such as webmail) for a product vying for Corporate IT dollars in 2005. Why DID they rest on their laurels back in 2002? The handwriting was on the wall back then with the NIC and webmail issues. Some of us suggested to Ipswitch to rip up their existing codebase--rewrite Imail from the ground up for the demands of a new world and to fight off aggressive closed-and-open source competition. Don't fritter away that priceless reputation of quality and value that the Imail product painstakingly built over the years. But, aside from the queue manager and infrequent patches, core software development apparently froze, and within two years Imail became a dinosaur on it's way to extinction. Sad. Dev Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 3:50:42 PM, you wrote: M> Same here, though we had IMail 7 running on them M> also.� First with onesbuilt into an Intel brand M> server board, and now with Intel NIC's builtinto M> SuperMicro server boards. M> I saw the old discussion that seemed to discover M> the issue.� It wasfrom back in 2002.� It definitely M> seemed like there was an issue withcertain brands, M> especially at higher speeds (the description M> anddiagnosis was seemingly solid and Ipswitch M> admitted to issues in anE-mail that was shared).� I M> would hope that given almost 3 years theyhave M> managed to correct whatever issues they were having M> since thisequipment is now the norm. M> Matt M> Darin Cox wrote: M> We've run on Intel Pro NICs foryears with M> no problem...we skipped IMail 7, though...went from M> 6 to 8. M> Darin. M> � M> � M> -----Original Message ----- From: Bill Green dfnSystems M> To:[email protected] M> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:13 PM M> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Web Mail M> Don, M> � M> We solved the same problem byinvesting about M> $150 in a 3com Server rated NIC. It seems IMail M> doesn'tlike RealTek or Intel. M> � M> Bill M> -----Original Message ----- M> From: Donald K. Yocum M> To: [email protected] M> Sent:Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:51 PM M> Subject:[IMail Forum] Web Mail M> Hello, M> � M> ����������� I am runningImail 7.07 with M> Windows 2000. �I have a problem with web mail is M> downand I get a TCP -1 and then comes back up. M> Nothing was change on theserver. M> The only I see in the logfile around the time it acting is this. M> � M> 20050125 152304 Web Error[E] TCP accept M> error.� 10004 (consecutive_accept_error_count=1 M> onIWebMsg Normal listen socket 488). M> 20050125 152304 Info -Normal TCP listener exiting��� . M> � M> Did anyone have any ideaswhat could be wrong? M> � M> Thank you, M> Don 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/
