----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 08:14 Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(
> > > "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". "Don't cut off your nose to spite your > > face (or Ipswitch)". > > Only one problem Len, my IMail 7.15 has been and continues to be > broken. I have SMTP service hangs up to 6 times a week sometimes. > Customers are complaining and it is becoming a major hassle. I am > not saying IMail is not better than other systems out there, but I > am not going to lose customers over a flaky service issue. Others > say they can stop and start the service, that works sometimes, but > most of the time I have to restart the server. I have followed every > suggestion in the archives and on the list (3Com NIC, one DNS server > listed, etc. etc.) and yet it is still an issue. > > I was looking for replacements before this announcement because > the one time I asked in the list about help I was told to look at the > archives. It's funny, but we're now on our fifth server running IMail (from version 2 or 3, can't quite remember), and the only service that (very infrequently) has a problem Webmail. I think that lock up has happened twice in the last 18 months. We ran IMail initially on NT 3.5, then moved to NT 4 and are now sitting at Win2K, and other than the mass dictionary attacks we were getting, it's run pretty good. It has its flaws, no doubt about it, but I challenge you to find a mail server (or any software) that doesn't. Our decision is to hold on to our IMail 7.07 install until something truly awful (like a major vulnerability or a Win2k fix that mucks up IMail) comes along. Then we'll probably just scoot over to Postfix. I'm doing the prelim work on it, and sticking the information in my back pocket, and hope I won't have to worry about it for a year or two. Len is right. Moving to a new server can be (and is almost guaranteed to be) a major headache. The only mail server move I made was away from the old Altavista mail server to IMail, and I had to write scripts to translate the email formats (Altavista stored each email in a separate file). IMail uses the Unix mailbox format, which makes using *nix archiving tools like MHonArc as easy as pie. It's got a decent (though not spectacular) web admininistration system, and Webmail, while no Hotmail or Yahoo, is adequate and a growing number of our customers use it solely. Coupled with Declude and IMGate, a whole ton of scripts, we have a rock solid mail system which I understand at a fairly deep level, right down to the registry keys! -- A. Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
