Mdaemon may be great, but it's out of my budget. I can't afford $2500 for
the mail server and then another $1600 for the anti-virus. Especially when
I compare it to SmarterMail at $600.
I would love to continue to use Sniffer... I respect it more than Imail and
Declude combined! But the fact is that it's time to move on. Ipswitch has
completely lost their mind and just doesn't give a damn about their
customers, failed to fix major problems, and raised their prices thru the
roof.
It may be very simple to plug in Sniffer to SmarterMail, but I'm not a
developer. I don't really want to run a non-supported implementation.
If there's a better option than SmarterMail I'd love to hear it, but I can't
compare a $4000+ server to a $600 one.
Thanks,
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Koontz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: RE: [sniffer] Sniffer and SmarterMail?
For what it's worth, I think Mdaemon is pretty hard to beat in the Windows
market. It's at least worth a test IMO. As far as WebMail clients go,
they
have various themes, some of which rival OWA... But the user always has a
choice of many.
The company has excellent support. Join their Beta list to see what I
mean,
you will communicate directly with their CEO and lead programming team,
and
they not only listen, but work with you to resolve your needs.
As far as the product goes, it's stable and very flexible in it's
configuration. It is also very reasonably priced. It has great native
Spam
and AV capabilities (inclduing SpamAssassin, RBL, SPF, DomainKeys), but
has
the ability to use 3rd party "Plugins" which are much faster than Content
Filter "Command Line" scans. Pete has already ported Sniffer to use a
plugin for Mdaemon, and you can also find a plugin for ClamAV. You can
also
see other addons by visitng:
http://www.mdaemonplugins.com
Just my 2 cents. I am not affiliated in any way, just think it's a great
product with great support.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Smart Business Support
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 7:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [sniffer] Sniffer and SmarterMail?
Looking at migrating to SmarterMail
MDaemon as an alternative
I like the weighting that SmarterMail offers for spam checking
and the web interface is undeniably nice. And there are many other
really excellent features including the price which seems reasonable
to me.
I have not tested this directly but you should be able to use
Sniffer with SmarterMail by employing the protocol settings for the
command line exe or batch file and pointing to Sniffer. This is also
how one would employ custom scripting. There is (at least I've seen
a web page) a filter already available on the web for ClamAV and
SpamAssassin that uses the hook. It would be pretty easy to use a
batch file for Sniffer I think.
Another possibility that might work for some is the open source
hMailServer in the latest beta which has a scripting provision built
in for 3 events: OnClientConnect, OnAcceptMessage, OnDeliverMessage.
It is beta but I've been testing it with no apparent problems thus
far. It comes with a provision for using ClamWin and an additional
virus scanner. You can use Clamdscan with a little trickery. Also
has a COM interface. http://www.hmailserver.com/ In order to
employ Sniffer you have to use the Scripting provision of the beta
and put your call to Sniffer in the OnDeliverMessage area. One
drawback thus far is the inability to easily add additional
x-headers but you can easily modify standard headers.
Not promoting anything - but we've been testing a few things
ourselves.
---
Terry Fritts
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