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 LC> _____________________________________________________________________ LC> http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites LC> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html LC> List Archive: LC> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ LC> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ---- Don Brown - Dallas, Texas USA Internet Concepts, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetconcepts.net (972) 788-2364 Fax: (972) 788-5049 ---- 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/
