We have been running version 6.0 Since the day it came out and have not seen any
increase in mail support calls....so I guess everything is running fine. I am using
the Web Mail right now to send and receive my mail since I am out of office.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Luk Van de Heyning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:37:06 +0100
>After installing Imail 6.01 (over an existing 5.08 install) I get a lot of
>angry customers on the phone: "we can not read our mail".
>
>I lost 5 hours looking into this and finaly reverting to the 5.08 install.
>
>Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
>
>What I found so far going wrong with 6.01 (making it USELESS over here):
>
>-message-count stays 0 (zero) but there are messages in the mailbox
>I noticed more people on the list reported this. Ipswitch support seems
>"not to believe us" guys....
>
>-the "modified" date/time shown in administrator on the files is completly
>WRONG
>
>-a "lastlog.in" file isn't created nor updated anymore (making it hard to
>track when/who/what when things go worng).
>
>-The system.log shows MANY lines like this:
>
>12:17 00:00 SMTP-(00000154) (E1) ERR dwS=1688 dwS1=1682 UID=245220022
>
>Ipswitch Support seems not to be able to tell me what these errors are.
>"Don't worry" they told me :-)
>I'm pretty sure these lines explain why the message-count stay 0 but
>messages are there (and can not be read....)
>
>Is there anyone out here running 6.01 without trouble ?
>
>I'm back to 5.08 for the moment... Took me many hours and an argument with
>my boss (who proposed to buy some decent software).
>
>
>And about the "major update" this is supposed to be. IMHO this is not
>worthy to be a 6xx version. 5.5b would be better.
>
>A mojor update IMHO should include some basic stuff as there is:
>
>-topics in the header of digest - list mail.
>-a "do not respond to..." for autoresponders.
>-.....many thinhs more (as there were in SLmail 2 years ago, but they had
>other problems... That's why we switched to Imail. I start to regret this
>decision).
>
>So if anyone is running 6.01 without trouble: let us know.
>
>P.S. Those who have trouble: do you have set a "TZ=...."
>environment-variable on your NT-box?
>
>Perhaps the date-stuff gets confused by that?
>I need the TZ for some other apps.
>
>Greatings from a very upset and angry Imail-user.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------
> Luk Van de Heyning
> "Zeb-master"
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ZEB Electronics, Dorp 1A, 2288 Bouwel, Belgium.
> Tel:+32-(0)14-512865 Fax:+32-(0)14-517703
>
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