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[ArtimasZ]

First, I like to say hello. Second, I love wingate. I have tried Kerio Winroute and ccProxy, but wingate is the easiest to configure and doesn't crash on me for silly things like Kerio does.

I have downloaded 5.2.3 and everything is rock solid so far. This was installed on a fresh install of XP and coexists with pcanywhere and Kerio Mailserver (which is the only kerio product I do like)

I have tried wingate 5.0.4 before on an old computer and had problems with it, but the newest version seems very stable. I would however like to see a feature either through proxy, WGIC or NAT that would allow you to throttle bandwidth for certain LAN IP addresses. Maybe in the activity pane, you could right-click on a computer and choose "Throttle Connection" a screen pops up with the IP and MAC and asks what you would like the UP/Down KB to be and how many KB/MB/GB they can download in Day/Month. Maybe one step further, where this option is also per user, and would also be avilable as a tab in the user properties, i.e. Guest or Admin under the Users Pane.

I like the firewall much, but would like you to add a right-click feature here allowing you to blacklist an IP that attepted a connection. I know you can do it from Activity, but it would be easier in Firewall Pane, because you have log right there.

Also, like the Proxy service where you delete certain services, i wish you could do the same for the Control Panel. Like, I never use DNS or SMTP/POP services for instance.

Other than that, keep up the good work.

Thanks!

[adrien]

Hi

Thanks for your comments.

We do have bandwidth throttling working in the lab, so we are on the way to getting that released (hard bit is designing how to present the configuration to the users).

We are also working more on logging and accounting/quotas.

This is part of a broader move to closer integration with enterprise-level business OS software, including such aspects as support for Terminal Servers with individual user-level access control (also working in the lab with either WGIC or NTLM auth in the WWW Proxy).

What do you like about the Kerio Mail server that WinGate's mail server lacks? We are still working also on our mail server, esp things like a POP3 retrieval client, support for SMTP auth for delivery etc (already supports for reception).

Adrien

[ArtimasZ]

Well the fact that Kerio works flawless for email and wingate does not.

I tried having everything running with wingate originally. All was fine, but overtime the email, both smtp and pop3 stopped responding. I couldn't send or recieve mail, it would keep trying to send but never really did anything.

So for something as important as email, i use Kerio. I like wingate's all in one solution much. Currently, i just use wingate for NAT, DHCP and Puresite /w Redirection.

I don't even use DNS/Winsock Redir/GDP or Mail. I pass all DNS info directly through DHCP.

For what I have enabled, and what i need it for, it works great. The other things i either have no use for at this time or doesn't work so hot.

But, if you were looking for a "what feature I like answer" I guess the per user space quota is nice. Also webmail support. Statistics on all sorts of usage. I mean it's a Mail Server only program, so it's gonna be pretty comprehensive. But the Per User Quota on mail space, i would like to see in wingate.