----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 5:22 AM
Subject: Re: [iMS] 'internal' email
>
> > some code improvements. It seems as if FusionMail is taking on a life
of
> > its own and things like this need to be addressed. The next version of
> > FusionMail will address several current shortcomings.
>
> Well I know that you have always maintained that FusionMail is freeware,
and
> that iMS is the "Swiss Army Knife" of mail servers - and both of those
> statements are true in isolation. However - FusionMail is both the show
case
> for iMS, and most importantly the basis upon which greatly enhanced and/or
> modified iMS based applications are being built. Irrespective of the
webmail
> interface - FusionMail is definitely required initially just to get
started. I
> also think that if FusionMail where not available - your selling and
support
> job would be many orders of magnitude greater than now, if not
unsustainable.
>
Yes, I agree. The inital feeleing on FusionMail was that it was a demo...no
more, no less. As a matter of fact, we felt that it was akin to Allaire
including Crazy Cab with ColdFusion. Crazy Cab is a demo some of the
capabilities of ColdFusion. So, you wouldn't really expect it to be an
all-encompasing application. Unfortunately, since iMS/FusionMail is a
relatively new application (a little over one year on the market and 18
months or so from initial development) that FusionMail is a requirement.
> I guess what I am saying is that FusionMail should be part of the base iMS
> distribution now, and with the same serialisation, and better still
included
> in a single install file.
>
I think that is something to consider but that would mean new distributions
when, say, only FusionMail has been modified. Also, many of our users
(probably all of them!) do not use unmodified versions of FusionMail.
Last thing....
FusionMail is currently in closed development here. I want to get it
finished and out the door ASAP. One of the ways, as a developer, that you
can push development is by keeping a product in-house and not releasing it
until finished. So, that being said, are there any users that want to get
prerelease versions of FusionMail 2.0? If you do want it I would expect
some coding input and not just criticism :-)
Anyway...just a thought.
Regards,
Howie
> Adrian Cooper.
>
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