RE: [NTISP] Imail vs post-office

Kurt A. Butzin ( (no email) )
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:07:49 -0500

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Yep, your right, we on 3.1 I believe. I still use it on a backup server.
They seemed to loose their interest in anything other that large ISP's, that
as well as the non support of IMAP and a web interface is what prompted our
switch. When they stored everything in the registry it was kind of a pain
in the a** to move a box. I think the companies change in attitude was one
of the bigger factors. Ipswitch has it's problems, but I can converse
directly with the programmers to help resolve problems. The IMail
community contains allot of bitchers that paid next to nothing for the
product, but want the everything a much more expensive package would
include. I don't thing it's suited for very large ISP's, but with designed
for the small to medium size company. It fills a product niche and I feel
does it well. If money were no object, I probably look elsewhere, but as
far as bang for the buck, I don't think you can beat it.

Kurt A. Butzin
President

Molarnet Technologies, Inc.
1936 Bay Street
Saginaw, MI 48602

(517)249-INET Fax (517)792-9158 kurt@molar.net
http://www.molar.net/default.cfm

Authorized iPSwitch WebVar, Allaire Alliance Member
Internet Services, Cold Fusion Hosting and Developement
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-----Original Message-----
From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 8:53 PM
To: ntisp@iea-software.com
Subject: RE: [NTISP] Imail vs post-office

We just moved one of our post-office mail servers to a new box...

Took all of an hour with over 500 accounts and dozens of supported domains.

Maybe you had the old version of post-office that kept the users in the
registry... but we had no trouble whatsoever... We run Post.Office v3.5.2
release 221
Also disagree with you about "set up" difficulty. It's a breeze.
The lack of a web interface is an issue, we are currently looking into third
party packages to accomplish this.

> As a follow-up to my previous message, we dumped postoffice a
> year ago do to their lack of features, especially a good web
> interface for the users to access their mail. The configuration
> was easy with Post Office, but took much longer to set up than
> IMail. Backing up the registry, moving the accounts to a new box
> is very easy with IMail and a nightmare with PostOffice. Hope this helps.

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