Nutsmail Theme

[rocky]

I wonder anybody has any experience on the installation the theme for server wide. I have see the instruction on the single site instruction but not serverwide.

[ldjnetworks]

Yeah, its basically the same. The only downside I can see is its not really a "theme" but a customized version of squirrelmail. So each time a new version comes out you have to contact nutsmail to get a new themed version.

- Dustin

[rocky]

Originally posted by ldjnetworks
Yeah, its basically the same. The only downside I can see is its not really a "theme" but a customized version of squirrelmail. So each time a new version comes out you have to contact nutsmail to get a new themed version.

- Dustin

Do you happen to have instruction for that :) I am still waiting for the author to send me the instruction since Friday.

Thanks

Rocky

[rszkutak]

YES I HAVE.......

Actually I own 1 server with Nutsmail System Wide, and manage a VERY large corporation ( La-Z-Boy Furniature Gallery's ) with Nutsmail installed system wide.

Personally I went to nutsmail about 5 months ago, and loved it. I proposed it to my client and they fell in love with it, since we did a glabal migration from IPSWITCH to Fedora 3 with DA for them 45 days ago, this was a natual fit and cost effective. The features there are great, and I cannot say enough about it.

I have no gripes about it at all, the guys at Nutsmail are great and installed it for us pretty quick. Every server I bring online from this point forward WILL HAVE NUTSMAIL !

Although on my server their were some problems with the configuration of it, but they got those knocked out pretty quick. I did pay for the installation, as $30 or whatever it is was worth me having someone do it so I could focus my efforts on Network Engineering where my specialty is.

So in a nutshell, I would HIGHLY recomend NUTSMAIL ( bad pun ! )

If you wish to see it live, please let me know !

rob @ NOSPAM @ szkutak.com


-rob

[jlasman]

Rob,

Do you mean the IPSwitch collaboration suite? I can't find any other email program from them, though I remember they used to have just email (years ago).

If so, then what you're saying is really alot of good about Nutsmail, and I'll want to consider it.

Jeff

[rszkutak]

Jeff,
Actually the IPSWITCH new product is the Collaboration Suite, in which you are correct. However the product I am referring to is their old version of the mail server, which was just their mail product and not the full suite.

Although the the IPSwitch product worked well, they wanted too much money to maintain the product annually as well as they wanted the company to upgrade to the new suite so they could support it. Their has been a MASS exidous from IPSWITCH in the past year because of thise and most of the customers who did not like their new model went to other Windows solutions, while a few went to Linux flavor's.

Don't get me wrong here, the Collaboration suite is a nice product, but in testing when we went to around 200 users it started to become a resource pig, and at 300 it was horrible. Sadly this was on a DUAL XEON machine with 2Gb of memory, SCSI 320 drives, the works ! Sadly, it just killed the machine. We proceeded to load Fedora 3 on the box and had DA put their install on it, now we have 2800 + users, and of that around 5% use IMAP functions and our processor sits around 1 - 2%.

As far as the Nutsmail suite itself, it adds a lot of functions to Squirrelmail that are not in the standard build, but as we know we can add those ourself easily. The great thing about nutsmail ( so i think ) is that it is a great cosmetic solution, and had a much nicer feel then the out of the box squirrelmail, not to mention the user has the ability to set the interface to whatever style they wish ( around 50 styles in there ).

For a $49 usd pricetag for all 3 skins, plugins, and 4 months of upgrades I don't think that it is an unreasonable price to pay for a much more friendly cosmetic feel, and some nice functions ( http://nutsmail.com/features.htm ) ...

However that's just my opinion.

-rob

[jlasman]

Thanks, Rob, for a great indepth comparison.

Jeff