----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:54
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Heads Up ... IPSwitch


> For all their excuses, I have yet to see a reasonable explanation of why
> Imail will no longer be offerred on its own.

As much as many IMail customers may wish an explanation, I don't think
Ipswitch really owes anybody one.  They're going to honor their SAs, and are
apparently giving refunds to those who renewed very recently.  It sucks that
IMail as a standalone product is being orphaned, but sh*t happens, I'm
afraid.  Whether it's a product line change or a company tanking, that's the
way the cookie crumbles.

That's why our next step (and we feel absolutely no rush here, either, lived
for four years without an SA so another year or so won't kill us) is to go
to an open source solution.  I have a pretty good feeling that a major open
source MTA like Postfix will probably be around in some form when I get out
of the business in a few decades, while those going to commercial solutions
will probably have gone through two or three MTAs at the same time.  I don't
mean this to be a commercial software-open source provocation, but just my
reading of the facts of life here.  Despite its flaws, IMail still is one of
the best mail software solutions I've ever seen.  I wish Ipswitch all the
best, though I think it's gonna take a lot more than that to make them even
find a niche in a world dominated by Exchange.

-- 
A. Clausen    [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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