Opinion: Best software to host a mail server at home?

[NikPreviousAcct]

I used to have a basic mail program that, when installed and configured correctly, would function as an incoming/outgoing mail server. I played with it a few times with my own domain, changing the mail server IPs to my home IP and configuring my firewall accordingly, but I can't remember the name. Now that I have broadband again, but can't find the damn program in my archives, I thought I'd ask around here from people who may have had experience. Yes, I'm searching on my own, but your opinion is part of my search. I'm leaving for part of the afternoon and will be back later.

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I'm looking for both a Windows based one and a Linux based one.

 

[Soybomb]

I use postfix for smtp and courier imap for imap and pop, work great.

 

[Nothinman]

I use Postfix and Cyrus IMAPd. Cyrus can be a pain to setup but it's fast as hell and the Debian cyrus21 packages take away most of the pain, if you have a lot of mail (I have 1 folder with almost 79,000 messages) Courier will choke eventually because the Maildir format uses seperate files for each message in the folder and that just doesn't scale well past a certain point.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Anyone have any experience with SurgeMail?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Never heard of it... windows I'm guessing? I've never even heard of any windows-specific mail servers, besides exchange. I wouldn't use them, but that's just me.

Postfix is nice. I use it with procmail and spamassassin.

 

[darktubbly]

You might want to take a look at MailEnable.

 

[Winchester]

Originally posted by: darktubbly
You might want to take a look at MailEnable.

Would this work good for inter-office mail?

 

[darktubbly]

Originally posted by: Winchester

Originally posted by: darktubbly
You might want to take a look at MailEnable.

Would this work good for inter-office mail?

Sure, I don't see why not. The Standard version is free for both personal/commercial use, but the Professional version has a few more features which might be useful to you.

 

[Winchester]

I just need something for 5-10 employees to have email and EASY to setup and maintain, works with XP Pro, and most preferably, free.
Ive tried several but most make you screw around with MySQL etc and I dont want to mess with that crap.

I just want to make a "virtual" domain, like LLJF.com, and then setup users alan@lljf.com without connecting to the internet, and be able to have email through outlook express etc.

 

[darktubbly]

MailEnable will suit your needs just fine, but if you want something even easier, try ArgoSoft Mail Server. It's dead simple to set up and there's a pretty good manual if you need it.

 

[Maetryx]

Nik,

From http://www.software602.com/:

LAN SUITE: Secure mail server with anti-virus & anti-spam, built-in firewall and proxy for controlled Internet sharing. Access your e-mail anywhere using the included web mail client. The 5 user version is absolutely free!

Hard to beat the price.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I REMEMBER IT! HAHA! I'm genius, I tell ya. The program that I used to run was called Hermes EMail Server.

 

[Winchester]

linky?

 

[yoda291]

I use qmail and dovecot to manage my family's set of mail accts (about 20-30 different accounts in all) works well except squirrelmail tends to be slow if your inbox exceeds 400MB in size....it's likely locking problems as I'm still using flocks.

 

[Need4Speed]

postfix, wu-imap. and fetchmail running on debian

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
postfix, wu-imap. and fetchmail running on debian

Well, I have a copy of SuSE 8.1 Pro, Mandrake 9.0, and I'm burning RedHat9 from ISO as we speak. I'm not familiar with Debian. I think I've seen it used all of once. No GUI, right? Just command line?

 

[Nothinman]

Debian runs a GUI just fine if you want it to, I run it on all my workstations. There's over 13,000 packages available on the Debian repositories.