Hi Hi,

I was all up and set for buying Hivemail today due to its commercial features as i am interested in trying the waters of Paid email hosting + Free email hosting.

HiveMail looked the best choice for what i was intending to do.

After reading through the Hivemail forums, i was looking for specific information on whether it provided a POP Email daemon to use along with webmail... it doesnt.. but its planned.. But looking at how many users are complaining about the length of time to get 1.3 out... I dont see a pop daemon coming any time soon.

I found a user mentioning socketmail.. wow

Its got everything right down to a tee of what i need, Im about to flash the cash on Socketmail but can anyone give me a good comparison between the 2 of them? And experienced with either of them, also such like support/bugs/Adding features with customer demands.. etc. etc.

Thanks all! :D

4Hosted,
It really depends, we are all still waiting on this new version to come out. If it’s anything they have promised and said it would be, I think it will be great. If not, Socketmail is the way to go 100%.

I know that Chen is an excellent guy and does a great job on the bug tracker. As far as the forum people with HiveMail, its just sad :-(

To really break it down:

Hivemail: Very “nice looking” but MANY bugs!
Socketmail: It actually works right!

Hope this may help with your decision.

Compu

I'd have previously recomended Hivemail with no 'buts' 'ifs' or 'maybes'. However, after all of the recent issues in the forum, I'd strongly suggest you go with Socketmail.

You'll have seen yourself the way staff talk to users on the forum, its not professional and its not nice.

The hivemail product is good, apart from the load issues which the hivemail staff appear to believe are 'acceptable' (hivemail crashing your server = acceptable? :rolleyes:).

All in all, it appears Socketmail has what you want, Hivemail currently doesn't. So, I'd say socketmail is the one to go for.

Difference is that Socketmail is a TRUE SMTP/POP solution that requires ROOT access.

Hivemail can be furn from a shared hosting account. To me, they are totally diffferent animals.

Apples and oranges.

Originally posted by ArtieFishill
Difference is that Socketmail is a TRUE SMTP/POP solution that requires ROOT access.

Hivemail can be furn from a shared hosting account. To me, they are totally diffferent animals.

Apples and oranges.

Socketmail pro yes, but Socketmail Lite is very similar to hivemail.

I believe SocketMail is the best choice. They are also throwing in the WAP module free at the moment. Their new skin is nice,kinda like gmail or yahoo, but nice. Now they have mail compression, mydocument and also 'tags' which is like gmail label.

Try it at http://www.socketmaildemo.com. Socketmail site is at http://www.socketmail.com

Personally I think socketmail looks quite professional and has quite a few handy features. If I were you I would choose socketmail. Good Luck. ;)

HiveMail = Sucks
SocketMail = Awesome!

Can SocketMail integrate with DirectAdmin and Cpanel and act as the main mail program however?

Does socket mail allow you to force a signature file in emails for advertising?

Yes you can force a sig in Socketmail, you just set it up in the admin panel.