Outspring discontinues QuickMail line of products
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 26, 2008 at 5:30am
Outspring—makers of email client, server and spam-stopping products—announced that they will be discontinuing the QuickMail email client and server line.
“While the QuickMail products have a rich history and many current users, it has become almost impossible for us to continue development on these products,” Jeff Baudin, Outspring president and CEO, says. “They were written in an old version of the CodeWarrior development system, which just isn’t compatible with current generation computers and operating systems.”
As of today, Outspring has suspended all sales and phone support for QuickMail products. Customers who have purchased QuickMail products within the last 90 days will still be entitled another 90 days of telephone support. Prior users can still find peer-to-peer support in Outspring’s support forum at their website.
Outspring has released final versions of QuickMail products with some changes. QuickMail Server will have compatibility fixe and is Rev-Locked to not operate on systems above Mac OS X 10.4. QuickMail Client Macintosh will have an embedded serial number and no longer require an activation code. Also, the startup screen will encourage users to migrate to Outspring Mail.
While Outspring has discontinued sales on QuickMail products, it will continue to offer the 1000-User upgrade, which will allow those operating a QuickMail email server to upgrade their server to the maximum of 1000 users. The price for this upgrade is $199 and is available at the Outspring store.
Asked about the possible future of QuickMail, Baudin stated, “We do intend to eventually create an all-new QuickMail server, written from the ground-up to be completely UNIX and OS X compatible. But right now, our primary focus is on our new Outspring Mail client for Macintosh and our line of spam-fighting products.” Baudin estimates that if they do create a new QuickMail server, it won’t be until 2010 or 2011.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
dave Says:
Ouch. I remember using QuickMail at a company 10 years ago, and it worked reasonably well.
But this sure has to be a kick in the nuts for anyone who bought QuickMail recently…
Posted on July 26, 2008