Does anyone else find it in poor taste to
discuss alternatives to IMail on the IPSwitch owned mailing list or is it just
me?
Thanks,
Shad D. Pulley
Sr. Systems Engineer
Ikano Communications
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801-415-8023
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I must say this looks pretty darn
good and VERY competetive with Imail! The only feature missing is the
Calendar, but Imail's is lacking there anyways.
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I have an affinity to
Merak, which is really a direct competitor to IMail given the win32 platform
and webmail interface.
http://www.icewarp.com/
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Has anyone any experience
with comparing and/or using MDaemon vs IMail ?
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Good point raised -- I'm
feeling you on this one. But in order to fairly
evaluate Imail's Total Cost of Ownership, we should be clear which solutions we
are comparing to since the other products may require add-ons ($$$)
for features that Imail has out of the box (ex: unlimited domain version,
etc). Can you clarify which vendors you are comparing with?
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I have been sitting here pondering
the usefulness of IMail for a few days now. I just wanted to
get everyone's thoughts on the subject of abandoning Imail for
another mail solution.
Here are my observations so
far: With spam being the number one concern I (and most mail admins)
have, what does i-mail offer that is usefull? Well, from where I sit, we
successfully filter about 95-99% of all Spam sent to our customers (Mind
you this is done with the wonderful Declude products as add ons, but could be
done with the new goodies in V8) The problem with this solution is that
it isn't complete. The effect of spam is still felt on my systems.
Our CPU cycles spent dealing with it, and our bandwidth wasted in accepting it
in the first place. >From a resource point of view this is a worthless
endeavor. The only real way that IMail prevents this waste is the Kill
file that blocks the message at the initial transaction level.
This brings me to my topic of
switching to a better system. After a couple of days of reading other
vendors product sheets, I have came to the conclusion that IMail is WAAAAY
behind in the Spam department. It seems that most other mail
solutions already offer what we have been looking for in IMail. Such
as dynamic kill files, tarpitting (for defense against dictionary attacks, mass
mailers, IPV4 lookups during the SMTP transaction, Hijack prevention, and
the list goes on.
I do have to say, that Yes, Imail is
the 10 minute e-mail solution (or whatever their pitch is), but that is all,
you have to spend thousands of dollars in extra hardware and software to
achieve the same result that you get what other vendors offer out of the
box. So this leads me to believe that most IMail users continue to be
users due to the fact that the TRUE costs involved
with IMail only creep up on you so that you don't notice the price you pay!
Please let me know what your
thoughts....
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