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Painkiller

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I have to admitt that I don't know very much about email servers. I would like to have a server (Windows XP) receive email from several accounts and store the emails on the server. The computers on the network would log on to the server to retrieve their email. All the email accounts are ISP, I don't need to setup my own domain name or anything like that. I not sure which software will alow me to do this, so any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Painkiller
 
dump xp set up a linux box and use fetchmail and sendmail it will do all that you asked. it can be done under xp but it will cost what youll need is a mail server with a pop3 polling ability.
 
Option 1.

The best option is to buy for $15 a year a TLD (aka, mycompany.com) for additional $10 a month you can get a space on a full normal hosted server 24/7. Total cost about $150 per year.

Almost all of the Hosting services provide you with all that is necessary for email.

Your set your own email everyone@mycompany.com and you can give a nice email service. Some of these servers provide both Webmail & POP3 email.

If security is important you have to make sure that the email can be configured with SSH, if you have SSH you do not need VPN.
Firewall, backups etc. are usually part of the deal.

Option 2.

Run your own server.

Linux is a good choice. However if you don not know Linux you will have to do a lot of basic learning work.

The following link has a collection of links for one of the Linux software options.

Link: Linux Router.

If you are already familiar with WinXP it is relatively an easy project...

There is numerous amount of freeware and inexpensive shareware software that you can try before you finalize your decision.

Example: ArGoSoft Mail Server.


You can find a Tutorial to set you own server here:
DNS - Domain Name System.
 
wait. you said these accounts are form an isp? so basically you need to grab the mail from the pop accounts?


there are many programs out there that will do it for you on xp
 
there are many programs out there that will do it for you on xp
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The catch is what they do with it after that. Using fetchmail I get my ISP mail (not very much since I run my own domain and use that for my main email address) and deliver it to my local IMAP server and the IMAP server filters all incoming mail to certain folders (mostly for mailing lists). A nice benefit of this is the ability to access my IMAP mail from any box and also from a webmail front end.

I'm currently using fetchmail, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix and apache+IMP.
 
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