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If
there product satisfied most of the customers (and I guess I'm going to hear a
lot of people say they love the product, but I hope to hear from people with
similar setups like us) Honestly, I think it's a good idea. I've been
using Imail since 1996. Up until 1998 or 1999, we've had nothing but good
luck with it. From 1999 to 2001 it was bearable. From late 2001 to
now, we've had horrible success. Imail's solution, newest version.
We have two servers with about 7-8k users each. We've followed every
recommendation, purchased service contracts every year and built probably 5 new
servers to see if it's hardware etc. I hope it comes to a time when people
can discuss strategies and simple bugs on Imail, but until then, maybe people
using this list to discuss other options will get Imails attention. Oh,
and as for issues that we have discussed very heavily with Imail in the past,
they *now* admit that there was problems...but I can't get help now until I
upgrade to Version 8.0 which actually, I'm hearing has more of an issue with
what we are trying to get away from.
-Daniel
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Daniel J. Vance, CCNA | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Administrator | http://www.uci.net
541-472-0733 | UNICOM (ASN 14342)
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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[TX]
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05, 2003 1:16 PM
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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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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason
Newland
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June 04, 2003 9:57 AM
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Subject: [IMail Forum] Stay or
Go...
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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