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> I am considering upgrading my Vopmail5.1 to Modus Mail > as there seems to be a fairly strong support for anti > virus and anti spamming and just wondering if any can > answer the following for me. Our customers were also demanding it. We had to do something. As long time VOPMail users, modusMail was a natural choice. > I wish to perform domain based scanning of email > before it is directed at another mail server typically > exchange. I don't want to individually create mailbox's > and then forward them on as that requires to much > administration. This should be doable. Look into the modusGate product. > There are ISP's in Australia that perform this on a > domain level but I am not sure what product they use. > Is this possible with Modus Mail ? And can I > selectively disable/enable this feature per domain ? > If I can do this then I can use the additional revenue > to justify such an upgrade. modusMail can be configured on a server, domain and mailbox level in this regard. > Does everyone who has bought Modus Mail think that it > was a worthwhile purchase ? IE Any regrets ? Good question. Depends on what day you ask me. It hasn't been nearly as reliable as VOPMail, but then it is doing much more than VOPMail. VOPMail was pretty much just moving files around. modusMail has to read, parse and decode, analyze, etc. each message. So, given that, it's performed well. I just wish it failed more gracefully. I've never understood why a single bad message in the spool would bring down the server (VOPMail and modusMail). But even this is happening less and less. That said, we've had really good luck with the Norman anti-virus engine built into modusMail. I was a little leery of it at first because I had never heard of the company. But it has worked well and definition updates are usually published in a timely manner. Though sieve is only effective at blocking between 60% to 80% of the spam, it has been pretty good for false positives. Yves is very good about responding to false positive reports. The modusMail interface, on the other hand, is horrendous (sorry, Vircom, but it really is). Perhaps there's some magic trick to getting around in there, but I don't get it. Every time I move from one view to another I lose the record I'm looking at. There's 10 different forms of navigation on every screen, including buttons across the top, lists on the left and the bottom, tabs above and below, buttons in the bottom corner. Worse, all the widgets seem to be Vircom's own and, consequently, don't function as they would anywhere else in Windows (i.e. grids aren't sortable by clicking column headers, elements that should be resizable aren't, windows lack a memory of their position, etc.). VOPMail wasn't ideal. It had screens that didn't fit in a 640 x 480 screen (none of modusMail's do, btw). It didn't really have a client install (modusMail does). VOPMail also suffered from proprietary widgets (i.e. screens that would close without committing changes and other such peculiarities). I would have liked to see them convert the old VOPMail interface into an MMC or Web based interface, but oh well. It is what it is, and ultimately, it's bearable. The last major point of contention is price. The modusMail subscription price has doubled twice in the past year. In that time, no new subscription based services have been added to modusMail that were not promised in the initial press release. This isn't to say Vircom hasn't fixed a lot of bugs, refined existing features, etc. To the contrary, they've obviously put a lot of work into modusMail. The release notes bear this out. However, with no new subscription based services in the same time frame, I'm left to wonder why the subscription price has jumped so dramatically, not once, but twice. All this to say, yes, overall, we're content. Be prepared to spend a lot more time on modusMail than on VOPMail, whether it's hung spools, dealing with false positive reports, or just learning a new system. Additionally, be prepared to spend a lot more money, and don't be surprised if the price is more a year from now than it is now. modusMail is major commitment in more ways than one. However, if you're customers are like ours, then they demand the features that modusMail offers. Benjamin S. Rogers http://www.c4.net/ v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ** To leave this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put the word "LEAVE" in the BODY of the email.
