On Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 2:52:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
> 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. :) Our other other server here has been running on CommuniGate Pro now for close to five years. Not once has it ever had an issue with any hardware within the server. > 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. I can't come to compare CommuniGate to IMail. IMail is too restricted in what it does. Just for an example. I know there has been a couple threads going now about issues with opening up alternate ports, with the aid of yet another piece of software, non the less. If I have to do anything like that, that domain automatically gets migrated off to our other server where I already have a listener opened up on port 2525 that is restricted to one IP on the server and is restricted to what IPs are allowed to use that port. But, I'm one that will melt myself into something and go with the flow of our corporate. I've already started plans of an entirly differant system all together. Your paragraph above is appriciated. It shows me that I'm not alone with my woes with CommuniGate and their more than triple price hike on our user account license (what use to be a $30,000 tag is now over $100,000). I heard about the price hike on IMail and IPSwitch's move to their version of a colaboration suite right on the CommuniGate list. > 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 <SNIP> ----- Duane Hill Sr E-Mail Administrator http://www.yournetplus.com 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/
