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In December I did a test install of Imail 2006 and came across a few issues that made me decide against upgrading. Can someone tell me if any of the following have been addressed?
- There is no PDA mail. There wasn't before but I had written one using the old template system. I hope there is one coming as the new templates do not seem to change friendly.
- Webmail does not have a page title. It simply says the http://myip.com/IClient/default.aspx. The default.aspx page is generated via .net code and I could not find a way to add a simple title tag to it.
- There is no way for users to see how much of their disk quota they have used. What is the point of setting a quota and not showing users how they are doing?
Screenshots of my mail templates are here:
- There is no way to show how many unread messages there are from outside the mail program. (Similar to the You've Got Imail addin). I want to have an envelope icon in my portal and have it indicate if there are unread messages in their mailbox. I can do this now in 8.x using something like "You've Got Imail" did. This is not possible in the 2006. I may have to resort to a 3rd party asp based imap component.
- There is a user preference to change the "reply to" address. This actually changes the persons email address in the Imail database. Problem is if you change your reply to address you LOSE all of your contacts. Change it, log out, log in and see for your self.
- Certain features in Web Admin pop an authentication box. Probably for good reason but it seems like it is a broken product when it does that from a clean install.
- Contacts are saved in an Access database. Just seems stupid since my user database is in an SQL Server. One more thing to get corrupt :)
Anyone using this in production for >1000 users and having success?
Kelly Gillis from Ipswitch responded with the following in December when I originally posted this:
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Hi Eric,
Glad you like the new web templates and i've added the comments for a thin template for pda/handheld devices. It's on the roadmap already and we have several requests that have come in. I particularly like the simple but very informative disk quota indicator and the "you have new/unread mail" indicator (also logged).
Nice catch - i just reproduced this as well...we'll log and queue up to fix.
- There is a user preference to change the "reply to" address. This actually changes the persons email address in the Imail database. Problem is if you change your reply to address you LOSE all of your contacts. Change it, log out, log in and see for your self.
Also, regarding the 1000 users, try this.
Thanks for the input.
bye for now,
kg
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