Hi Robert et al...
The other side of this coin:
> an international ISP with about 25,000 plus accounts
are smaller users like myself, for whom the cost of an unlimited
license and a support contract are _exactly_ the same (unless you
have multiple licenses, of course) (educ.pricing comments deleted :-)
I don't currently have the problems I hear about on this list, and I
worry about the problems an ever-bigger, ever-more-feature-laden,
everything-to-everyone Imail will develop.
I don't see Windows 2000 Server Enterprise edition as something
that'll make MicroSoft's server product more useful to me (just the
opposite, as it may rachet up the complexity of all versions of the
product). Similarly, I can't agree that:
> the lack of database server support ...
> hurts us, the customer,
tom
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>Jordan,
>
>I couldn't have said it better! We have used Imail since 1995 and will
>continue to use it under one condition: Items 1,2 and, 3. We are an
>international ISP with about 25,000 plus accounts. We use SQL for
>authorization both in dial up and Email capacities. We have suffered through
>the ODBC problem and are using Mike Nice's excellent workaround since
>IpSwitch seems to turn a deaf ear to solving this problem with a simple
>re-write of ODBCUSER.DLL
>
>IpSwitch: How hard would it be to re-write ODBCUSER.DLL? In all honesty,
>you have to admit that the lack of database server support not only hurts
>us, the customer, but you as well. How many customers have simply given up
>on Imail because of this? Not everyone subscribes to this forum...
>
>SPAM: It costs us real time and money to "secure" our mail servers from
>relay rape and "cc: SPAM" and everything else that gets through SMTP
>security, or the lack thereof. We are constantly on the defensive side of
>this. Its "crisis management" in it most real, and damaging form.
>
>Personally, I like Imail, our engineering staff likes Imail, our customers
>like Imail but, if its bad for business, it goes, like it or not. I would
>really hate to see it go....
>
>IpSwitch, your customers are voicing their opinion here, do more than just
>hit the "delete" key...
>
>Robert J. Fehn Sr. President
>GBM Technologies Ltd. / Mail Options
>CEO ProNet USA Inc
>Nation Wide Dial Up and Free Internet Access
>http://www.pro-usa.net http://www.mailops.com
>
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