> From: The Little Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "antispam/antivirus capabilities, a built-in Web-server for personal Web > pages, and a state-of-the-art list server." > > I had to read the web page to believe it. built-in web server for personal > web space? in a mail server? come on, now..even microsoft isn't that dumb.
When I asked about it, they said it was sort of a logical after-thought for the rest of what they do. It's already a web server, for the administration interface and the personal interface for reading mail and managing your settings and mailing lists. They already store user stuff in a "home directory" (where your spools go, your settings files are, etc.). From there it was sort of small logical jump to give users an exportable web space within that home directory. (and, I believe it was also requested by some of their customers) They've also had requests to make the spools available via FTP, and to add support for WebDAV. With WebDAV, you could pretty much use their product as a .mac clone/replacement. And, it's probably more appropriate to think of their product in that light (a comprehensive package that an ISP would use for the parts of their service that aren't physical link related) than merely as a POP or IMAP daemon. > Sure it's scalable to xxxK of users, if you'll willing to pay 30 grand > for the license. damn! Yeah, not cheap. But, you can also get smaller licenses for smaller userbases, or you can use the non-clustered version for free. The only catch there is that when run unlicensed it puts a line of text at the start of every message saying "This message was sent via an unlicensed copy of communigate pro". Other downsides: no kerberos support, no ability for users to create their own mailing lists (though, they do have a CLI and Perl module interface to controlling the system, so you could craft your own add on to the web interface which would allow authenticated users to create mailing lists which they own, and then they would use their regular interface for doing the mailing list management). But, it is another way of attacking the POP and IMAP problem, which is what the poster asked for. John
