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At one point several years ago, this list had 3 or 4k subscribers, most of whom were silent, and that was only a tiny portion of the entire number of Imail clients. Even 500 or a 1000 vocal protesters/deserters here is a thimbleful vs the installed base/prospects that MUST have been telling Imail that ICS is what they wanted.
I'm sure Ipswitch knew they'd lose customers by replacing their "basic" mail server (Imail hasn't been "basic" in years) with a much more expensive ICS, so the calculation must have been that they would also gain a lot more business with the new products.
The basic complaint is that the current product is imminently end-of-life and the new product is much more $$$, rather than Imail being continued in parallel with Imail ICs. I expect they calculated that the Imail current product and the Imail ICS product were too different to be maintained as one, and two development/maintenance tracks were too expensive for the Imail "basic" revenue to support.
"Nothing personal, just business"
I expect the IMGate crowd will leverage their *nix experience and expertise to build their own mailbox servers behind IMGate, keeping postfix as MTA, and adding whatever POP, IMAP, LDAP, Apache, webmail servers, of which their is choice of mature, widely installed, free servers.
Len
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