RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SmarterMail 3.0

[Robert E. Spivack]

A couple of things:   How to remove the “mark as spam” menu items in webmail since they are meaningless when using an external spam blocking preprocessor.  The suggestion I got from support that in an unsupported manner I could edit the “aspx” files, seemed partly reasonable until I poked around and found that everything is codebehind with server controls and only the compiled dll’s are distributed. Kinda impossible to modify a server control that way! (I understand why they won’t publish source code, but they sent me down a false alley)   Other issue is more “wrappers” around the webservice interface to make it more usable for non SOAP experts.  I would like to have a commandline utility and some asp/aspx pages that provide a forms interface for adding domains, users, etc.  Just some published code and some good examples would help.  There is very little officially available and some of the stuff published in the forums doesn’t work completely.   Last issue was how to use dynamic content in the skins.  We would like to change the logo based on the URL so we have have per-domain skins without creating hundreds of virtual sites and duplicating the webserver files to accomplish that by brute force.  The whole skin thing is not well documented for changing anything non-trivial.  The skin templates are “*.htm” files which somehow get pre-processed into aspx files but one cannot touch those aspx files easily.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Panda Consulting S.A. Luis Alberto Arango Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:06 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SmarterMail 3.0   what questions do you have regarding smartermail? or what is your username in the forum to look for them. I try to be actively involved in the forum -that is my way to learn about smartermail- and I will be glad to try to help.   regards       -Luis Arango   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Graveen Sent: Miércoles, 21 de Diciembre de 2005 08:51 a.m. To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SmarterMail 3.0 I've also posted question to their forum with little or no response (I didn't think the questions were that obscure). There definitely seems to be more "experts" in the IMail camp, or at least experts that are willing to share. As with new versions of IMail, I'll take the "wait and see attitude" with Smartermail 3.0 MIchael Graveen At 03:42 AM 12/21/2005, you wrote: The “community” support for SmarterMail is much smaller (or at least quieter).   We are running one SM server for a client and I’ve posted several questions on the SM support forums and have not received any responses at all.   Similar posts to Imail or Declude discussion lists have always resulted in lots of replies with useful help.   Obviously the products are different and the questions are different, but so far I’m not impressed with the size/responsiveness of the community.  That’s an important factor we will consider seriously before migrating any other servers from Imail to SM – saving a few hundred dollars in license costs is insignificant if we can’t get help one way or another as quickly.   (Needless to say, the SM questions were on issues that SM tech support provided courteous but not helpful replies when first submitted privately as an email support case, so I was hoping for help from the community)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Evans Martin Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:48 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SmarterMail 3.0   It’s such a breath of fresh air having been in the IMail camp for the last several years.  LOL!   Evans Martin   EVANS MARTIN  [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOSTING:  http://www.martek.net PROGRAMMING:  http://www.martekware.com   iPlus Info Browser – IPB’s IMail Migration Tool, password browser, reporting suite make IPlus Info Browser something no IMail administrator should be without.  http://www.martek.net/Default.aspx?tabid=96     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gary Steiner Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:48 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] SmarterMail 3.0   The following was posted today on SmarterTools web forums: Q:  When will we expect to see v. 3? A:  The release date depends on the results of final QA.  The product is essentially done, just making sure that all the bugs are out of it.  Since mail servers are so critical to people's infrastructure, we work extremely hard to make a stable release with no issues that are going to bite you.  We don't sacrifice stability for a quick release. Assuming everything is in good order (which to this point it appears to be), release will be middle of January. You can view the original post at http://forums.smartertools.com/forums/2/11125/ShowPost.aspx#11125