Looking for mail server software...

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I've been looking and looking for some reasonable mail server software and
having little luck. I'm hoping that someone can suggest something that I may
have missed.

My requirements:
- Multiple domains. I have two domains for which I want to host mail.
- Identical usernames for different domains. In other words I was an account
named "steve" on each domain, each with a seperate mailbox. POP3 username of
"(e-mail address removed)" or "(e-mail address removed)".
- Ability to check incoming mail against RBL lists such as bl.spamcop.net
and relays.ordb.org.
- Able to relay all outbound email through my ISPs SMTP server.
- Provides a webmail interface, with the ability to host it using IIS if
needed.

Software I've looked at:
- Argosoft Mail server - Doesn't provide a reliable/usable webmail
interface.
- ISMail server - Webmail doesn't run under IIS
- RaidenMaild - Cannot duplicate usernames across different domains.
- CMail server - No RBL support
- Surge, Merak, MailEnable, mDaemon... all costly.
 
I'd recommend MDaemon, yes it's costly but not nearly as costly as Exchange,
and is far more configurable and admin-friendly.

If you want full-featured webmail then I don't know of a free solution that
will give you that, at least not under Windows. Mercury is good in other
respects but doesn't provide webmail.
 
Noozer said:
I've been looking and looking for some reasonable mail server
software and having little luck. I'm hoping that someone can suggest
something that I may have missed.
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If your requirements include 'running on a Window Server' then my
reccomendations are mDaemon and Exchange Server. Yes they're both costly,
but your requirements are a little above the 'entry level' and also,
sometimes, you just have accept quality costs and you have to pay the
freight if you want something good enough.
 
Have you looked at a product called FTGate. Im not sure if it will meet all
your requirements but it's the cheep way out..
 
Robert Moir said:
If your requirements include 'running on a Window Server' then my
reccomendations are mDaemon and Exchange Server. Yes they're both costly,
but your requirements are a little above the 'entry level' and also,
sometimes, you just have accept quality costs and you have to pay the
freight if you want something good enough.
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I should have included that this will be running in a Windows XP Pro SP2
machine.
 
Ipswitch IMail Server. A fine product, very easy to use, can host
multiple domains, list server, spam and virus filtering, Web mail
interface and more. Even runs on XP.

Yes, you do have to pay some $$ for it, but you definitely get what you
pay for.

-Brad


_______________________________________________
Bradley J. Dinerman, MVP - Windows Server Networking
President, New England Information Security Group
http://www.neisg.org
 
My solution would be to actually use VMWare or Virtual Server and use
one of the UNIX solutions that provide this type of services + spam
filtering at a low cost...

--
Jeffrey Randow
(e-mail address removed)
Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006

http://www.networkblog.net
 
Noozer said:
I've been looking and looking for some reasonable mail server
software and having little luck. I'm hoping that someone can suggest
something that I may have missed.
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ImNSho, use the right tool for the job.

Postfix on Linux is my preferred tool.


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Ian said:
I'd recommend MDaemon, yes it's costly but not nearly as costly as Exchange,
and is far more configurable and admin-friendly.

If you want full-featured webmail then I don't know of a free solution that
will give you that, at least not under Windows. Mercury is good in other
respects but doesn't provide webmail.
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I've used Mercury for years and it's a nice free package. I believe they're
developing a webmail module for it, but their release cycle is slow (last
release was almost 3 years ago.)

http://www.pmail.com/whatsnew/m32401.htm
 
Chris Barnes said:
ImNSho, use the right tool for the job.

Postfix on Linux is my preferred tool.
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Postfix handles webmail?

Linux doesn't run under Windows XP Pro so well.
 
Noozer said:
Postfix handles webmail?
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Postfix is the MTA.
Webmail is a MUA.

The two *should* be kept seperate.
And Squirrelmail is a really nice, free webmail client for unix.

Linux doesn't run under Windows XP Pro so well.
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Server appliations (and email is a server app) deserve server OS's.

XP is a user OS.

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