What do you recommend for POP/SMTP with Auth ?

I think IPSwitch is shooting themself the foot.


Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 9:51:33 AM, Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>So far, 216 posts

LC> At one point several years ago, this list had 3 or 4k subscribers, most of
LC> whom were silent, and that was only a tiny portion of the entire number of
LC> Imail clients.  Even 500 or a 1000 vocal protesters/deserters here is a
LC> thimbleful vs the installed base/prospects that MUST have been telling
LC> Imail that ICS is what they wanted.

LC> I'm sure Ipswitch knew they'd lose customers by replacing their "basic"
LC> mail server (Imail hasn't been "basic" in years) with a much more expensive
LC> ICS, so the calculation must have been that they would also gain a lot more
LC> business with the new products.

LC> The basic complaint is that the current product is imminently end-of-life
LC> and the new product is much more $$$, rather than Imail being continued in
LC> parallel with Imail ICs.  I expect they calculated that the Imail current
LC> product and the Imail ICS product were too different to be maintained as
LC> one, and two development/maintenance tracks were too expensive for the
LC> Imail "basic" revenue to support.

LC> "Nothing personal, just business"

LC> I expect the IMGate crowd will leverage their *nix experience and expertise
LC> to build their own mailbox servers behind IMGate, keeping postfix as MTA,
LC> and adding whatever POP, IMAP, LDAP, Apache, webmail servers, of which
LC> their is choice of mature, widely installed, free servers.

LC> Len


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