Existing users, 
I've been using Communigate for several years (Mac OS 9 through 10.4) and it has been one of the most solid performers in our business. I have found customer support to be very responsive and most importantly, COMPETENT when it comes to solving problems. As a result, Communigate allowed us to manage our email without programmer-level (or even sysop level) IT staff.
To those who complain about the price, I'm sorry you don't see the value. I see nothing but value, and one less thing to worry about for our business.
CommuniGate Pro
High-end mail server app.
Version: 5.2.17
Great email server, and great support
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: dmann10 Wednesday, December 05 2007 @ 03:41 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
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Better than some - afterhours
I have to admit -- as an advocate for OSXS for years, I've been patiently hoping and waiting for Apple to mature their product. They've brought some new things to the table with each release: 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5. At 10.5.4, OSXS is OK... but just OK.From an ISP or even enterprise perspective, one would hope we could, as of 2008, be able to have web-based administration of accounts, like Stalker has. We wish we could have the ability to change passwords at the user/web level, like Stalker has. We wish we could run listserves using the actual virtual host domains, rather than just from the primary domain -- and yes, Stalker can do this easily. We wish we could delegate email admin in some kind of fine-grained manner, like delegating admin management of accounts on a domain-basis -- like Stalker provides. We wish Apple would show complete commitment to the power of the OS, rather than the barest of features, with all other features of the powerful underpinnings of its open-source toolset only available via the CLI. Stalker may make this all web-based, but it is a GUI, and it is fully functional, and it is fully featured. Stalker is greedy, perhaps. Apple is distracted with the 'shiny' of i-this and i-that. The server development team could wow us. But just like the promised set of features that never quite make it into the current shipping release (ZFS, anyone?), Apple leaves us with a Waiting for Godot format for their product set. New features are promised, old features never quite mature. Snow Leopard? It might be what Leopard should have been -- or it might not. But for serious email, one cannot discount Stalker's product. It may be grossly expensive, but it delivers the feature set Apple has only fantasized about. With which company do you really feel the love?
Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 02:42 PM PDT
Lousy pricing - The Director
We don't complain about the price, we complain about Stalker changing their pricing at will making it impossible for old users to stay with CommuniGate. It is of course legal, all companies can decide to screw their customers should they want to do so.Reply to This
Tuesday, June 24 2008 @ 12:39 PM PDT