----- Original Message ----- From: "x" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 21:49 Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team
> Ted Galerneau wrote: > > Thanks Mr. X, it's looking better to me as time progresses and I may just go > > for it and take the time to learn it! I was working on a control panel > > solution for Windows until now, and from what I hear there are tons of them > > for NIX many which are free. NIX could potentially solve a lot of issues if > > I could ever feel confident about not being rooted by the bad guys. > > > > I suppose we should take it offlist if it went any further. However, > let me state that I honestly don't know why anyone would run anything > other than a *NIX solution if they had the technical expertise. > Honestly, Imail is no match for a *NIX solution. Imail's strength is in > its ease of use for people that are all windows. I have plenty of experience with *nix systems (one of my first real jobs was getting a Tandy 6000 Xenix machine up and running with just the crappy manuals, as someone hadn't installed the man pages). IMail has the major benefit of being able to handle POP3/SMTP/SMTP Auth/IMAP/Web mail right out of the box. It's more complicated with something like Postfix. It's not so much the configuration hurdle that I'll have to jump over (I'm no Postfix wiz) so much as the fact that we've been running the same mail system for seven or eight years, and changing over, even to a performer as good as your average well-configured *nix box, is a big deal. Administratively, to produce a *nix box with the same functionality as IMail and Declude is going to require pulling a number of pieces together. I think we'll probably do it eventually, but IMail does the job fairly well, and our philosophy is better the devil you know than the devil you don't. 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/
