Regards
Dan
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Dan Waldron
Net Sydney Internet Services
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http://www.netsydney.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronnie D. Franklin <ronnie@itexas.net>
To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Date: Saturday, 13 March 1999 7:57
Subject: RE: [NTISP] Imail vs post-office
>Have you had any problems with customers not being able to retreive Email
>... some small in size, but mostly 2-5 meg attachments????
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com
>> [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Christian Schmit
>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 2:31 AM
>> To: ntisp@iea-software.com
>> Subject: RE: [NTISP] Imail vs post-office
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We also run postoffice 3.5.3. All in one Postoffice is very stable.
>> We never had a problem. But what is really missing is IMAP4 support
>> which was promised a long time ago according to the PO FAQ that used to
>> be on their site. A web interface for customers would also be a good
>> thing but as they develop so slowly, we moved to dmailweb from
>> netwinsite.com to offer our customers a webmail interface to their
>> postoffice e-mail address. This works pretty well. So for me IMAP4
>> is the only important feature missing. It is not serious that a company
>> that claims to be the leader in Internet messaging does not support IMAP4
>> in their baseline product. But as someone said they seem to focus on
>> large ISP's.......
>>
>> Another thing is that Postoffice is VERY expensive, even the upgrades
>> cost a hell lot of money!
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> At 04:07 AM 3/13/99 , you wrote:
>> >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
>> >ISP Discounts on Allaire and Ipswitch Products
>> >Custom Systems, Hardware and Software
>> >
>> >-----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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