Smartermail 4.2 they made big changes in the threading model and changed the
core to allow the webmail to run on another server.  I have it in our
testing lab right now and it looks promising.

Smartergate - Vote yes.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:imgate-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Omar K.
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:44 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [IMGate] Re: Imail POP3 brute force attack
> 
> Indeed...
> 
> One thing to note, which came as a surprise to me since it seemed
> smartermail had all the features I wanted and much more; scalability on
> SM
> is quite limited.  You cant use a backend SQL server, no duplication,
> and
> you cant run web mail on a different machine.
> 
> Their customer support said the maximum users on a box is 40k.  They
> say the
> limitation is windows socket based.
> 
> However, I see now that v 4.2 almost out and having implemented SSL on
> many
> of their protocols, I sensed that scalability/redundancy will be the
> next
> thing they would tackle for V5.
> 
> I say we rename IMGate to SmarterGate : )
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:imgate-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of John Dobbin
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [IMGate] Re: Imail POP3 brute force attack
> 
> We ran Imail for years and finally had enough.  After testing
> Smartermail,
> Mailenable, and Merak we purchased Smartermail and never looked back.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:imgate-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen Thompson
> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:38 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [IMGate] Re: Imail POP3 brute force attack
> >
> > Just taken a look at their website. It DOES look very impressive and
> > certainly much cheaper than iMail.
> >
> > Might give it a try.
> >
> > Allen T.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Omar K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:47 AM
> > Subject: [IMGate] Re: Imail POP3 brute force attack
> >
> >
> > > Highly recommend moving to  SmarterMail.  Not only they are a
> > > better/cheaper
> > > product, they have mechanisms to prevent and notify of such
> attacks.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:imgate-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > On Behalf Of NeoBlu
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:28 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [IMGate] Imail POP3 brute force attack
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen a brute force POP3 attack on their Imail in recent
> > weeks?
> > > We
> > > have seen 2 in the last month. Each attack originates from a DSL IP
> > > address.
> > > Once from Mexico and this am from PacBell land, not that geographic
> > > location
> > > means anything. Only fix seems to be blocking the IP address at
> > border.
> > > Imail version is 8.05. Symptoms are open socket count skyrocketing
> > and
> > > normal POP3 calls failing for lack of sockets.
> > >
> > > Not keen on upgrading Imail due to webmail issues and other issues
> > noted
> > > on
> > > Imail list. I have no desire to be a beta tester for IPSwitch. Been
> > > thinking
> > > of moving over to a *nix solution.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > -NB
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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