Personally if I was in your place I would evaluate Exchange 2000 (or 2003 if it comes out while you are evaluating.) If they want shared contacts (you mentioned Act for Notes) then Exchange does that well. Also shared calendars, delegation, etc. Symantec would probably give you a cross-grade from Symantec for Notes to Symantec for Exchange. Exchange has connectors to migrate from Notes.
I use Imail at home because I'm poor and since I'm an MCSE it would probably be extra-unethical to steal Exchange and run my mail on it. If I had the $ I would go with Exchange. If Exchange is out of your price range too then Imail is nice, but you won't get delegation, shared calendars, or contact management. Know that going in, and make sure your users don't have an expectation of delegation ability. (Any important people with assistants?) Another product worth looking at is iPlanet 6 from Netscape. I tested iPlanet a lot because I work for AOL Time Warner. I really loved it. It has one or two AOL-ish features like in webmail there is an icon showing if the person that sent the email is online on AOL (and I think ICQ too.) iPlanet rocks because it uses iPlanet directory server which is a real LDAP server so you can use that LDAP for other apps in your company to authenticate against. Imail could do all the things that I mentioned it lacks if Ipswitch would spend time on those features rather than adding antivirus and spam which most people already had through Declude (a 3rd Party add-on) and Declude does better than Imail. Just my $0.02, but what do I know.. I'm just a lowly engineer at AOL Time Warner. -Josh > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:56:33 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Recommendations/Advice re Lotus Notes >> iMail > > Looking for input from anyone who migrated from Lotus Notes to iMail. > Already got good suggestions from Sandy and Ives for data migration > (thanks). > > It would be helpful to get input from anyone who went down this path as we > evaluate iMail and attempt to convince management to support this change. > > Summary of Existing Email Situation: We only have one Notes server, with > only about 120 users. We don't use the groupware functions, so it is just > a complex, expensive email system. We use Symantec Norton AV to scan > attachments (works great). No anti-spam capability. 5 different domains > point to our server. We have about 20 remote users who currently use Notes > replication to allow off-line email work. Would like to be able to email > to fax (looks like iMail provides this option). Also, management is > looking at Act for Notes, so we would want to find an alternative before > making a another commitment to Notes! > > Thanks. > > Thomas > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
