Are these people just hangin' out in forums waiting for lost souls to convert. If QMail is so good, then hang out there. I don't hang out in the QMail forums trying to convert people to IMail.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Wolf Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 8:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [imail] Ipswitch sucks Why are you messing around with IMail to start with? Instead of trying to write your own, etc. the answer is FreeBSD running QMail. It will outperform IMail many times over and is free. None of the problems you mention either. -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terrence Koeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: [imail] Ipswitch sucks > I run a free webmail service and while trying to debug an access > violation it gives after running a hour it hit me; I have Imail running > behind an Apache reverse proxy to fix the problem that webmail takes the > port on all IP's and to add the missing functionality of caching & > compression, the other end has to be complemented with Declude Junkmail > and Virus to make up for the missing parts there (Yes, they have an > anti-virus scanner now, but for a joke price) and then there is the mail > gateway placed before Imail to prevent DoS-es on the SMTP server. I have > written several utilities myself to add missing administrative > functions. Oh, don't forget the templates from HKSI! > > I was thinking 'How the hell did it come this far???'. In the time I > spent keeping Imail up & running and adding the missing parts I could've > written a POP3/IMAP4 webmail implementation in PHP like 4 times! > > That's exactly what I started doing now. And while writing such an > interface I came to Ipswitch's broken IMAP4 implementation, arg. > > Ipswitch used the time between version 6 & 7 to implement a crappy > spellchecker and calender plus a way too expensive virusscanner instead > of where they should've used it for: Fixing the bugs and adding > requested features in their existing product. Now they've built all > sorts of stuff on a broken base. I mean, who here can name one, just > one, program that doesn't provide the option to bind to a specific IP? > > Are my users happy that they have a calendar, but that they can't read > their mail for 10 minutes every hour? No they are not. I got over 200 > e-mails of users complaining about the webmail and saying that as the > most problems appeared after I installed the calendar (v6->v7) I could > better remove it because they don't care about a calendar. > > I think that if Ipswitch thought for a second and zapped the calendar & > spellchecker and then rewrote the core of the whole shite it would be a > good product, but they are now too late for me. I will write an > implementation on my own and search for a suitable SMTP/IMAP/POP3 > solution and let Ipswitch rot. Ipswitch is just living on the name they > aquired when their product was still working! But you got to work on > your product over time to keep it up to date, not just add some utils on > different ports, otherwise it will become the prehistoric core-based > shite it is now. > > rant=off > > -- > Regards, > > Terrence Koeman > > Technical Director/Administrator > MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.nl) > > Please quote all replies in correspondence. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. > Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 > To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists > ______________________________________________________________________ The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] ______________________________________________________________________ The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists
