Agreed. IMail is a handy, quick way to get e-mail going, and individual calendaring is just a little bonus, but definitely not a product-seller in its current form. I certainly hope (and suspect) Ipswitch will add some obvious groupware-like sharing (above the ical support) that will make the calendaring more useful for organizations, but I'd say their primary market doesn't need most groupware features.
I myself am looking at the various web-based free and low-cost workgroup packages and attempting to integrate them in trials with our current setup to determine which one will fill our needs in combination with IMail (Of course being a small K-12 school system, we don't require the spit-and-polish of an expensive Enterprise-class app). By the way, suggestions would be welcome if anyone has done this and it is not already in the list archive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail or Exchange > > I have worked with Imail before and have been very impressed, but for a > shop > > that is very used to using exchange and useres that use outlook, how does > > iMail compair? For the end user are they able to schedule meetings etc > etc? > > Can someone help me out with the plus's and minus's in using iMail for a > > shop that has always had a exchange server? > > Dan, > > If I read you correctly, you are concerned with using IMail as "groupware". > If this is the case, IMail may not be the product for you in this respect. > IMail is great at doing what it was designed to do: being an easy-to-setup > and easy-to-maintain mail server. But if you wish to share calendars and > suchlike, IMail (at least in its current incarnation) will not do it out of > the box, if at all. I believe that this is by design (see > http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/IMail_Server/features.html). > > Just my opinion; others may chime in to correct me. > > Guy > -- > Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
