RE: IMail from IPSwitch

John Davies ( (no email) )
Tue, 9 Jun 1998 07:29:54 -0700

>> When will Emerald interface with IMail?
>
>Rather than chase down every possible vendor that could work with
>Emerald and do all the grunt work, we are going to be using a new
>approash with Emerald 2.5. Emerald 2.5 will include a fully
>extensive DLL that currently has the proprietary extensions for
>NTMail, Serv-U and DNews. Also includes is our open API set
>that allows any program to validate and manipulate Emerlad users,
>without having to understand the database. It will come with
>full documentation so that other vendors can easily make hooks
>for Emerald w/out us having to re-invent the wheel each time.
>
>The advantage to this is great. You the customer, can send
>the vendor the information (our point them at it) and they
>should have a very small development cycle to support it,
>since there will be no interaction requirements from our
>side.
>
>If you are a vendor or 2rd party integrator and would like to
>see the DLL information before Emerald 2.5 is released, please
>send me E-Mail, and I will forward it to you.

Just a reminder: MailSite (http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite.htm) integrates
with Emerald 2.5 out of the box today. We built in a native ODBC connector to
authenticate against Emerald without requiring an external DLL.

Regards, John.