Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) E-Mail server question

[Magic30]

Hi,
which email server can I use with an UBB forum? Any free? Or can I make the UBB server also to an E-Mail Server with some E-Mail server proggy?
I wish to enable email functionality so that users are emailed if for example a thread is updated.

TIA

 

[Magic30]

noone?

 

[Damascus]

Maybe sendmail? It's on a lot of servers.

 

[Magic30]

And I forgot: I wish to use it on a Win2k machine.

I tried sendmail now, but it requires another mail server... isn't there any program that makes the server that serves the UBB forum also to a full mail server? So that there is no Relay SMTP server needed? I do not want to use my ISP E-Mail as forwarding server because its limit is 5 MB I wish to have my own mail server where I can save more than 5 Mb of mail....
TIA

 

[blstriker]

Okay, this is a partial answer to your question. You don't need an email server program to use UBB's email. Set up your SMTP server as described here: Setting up SMTP Email . Then in UBB control panel in general settings, tell it to use SMTP and enter the internal IP address of your server = 192.168.0.20 for example.

This way, UBB will use your SMTP relay that is built into IIS. However, without an email pop server, you will have to collect your email in your drop server or your can have your email forwarded to an alternate email address.

What I've described is how I run my website. It's not optimal, but it works.

 

[Magic30]

thx for the info.

BTW: cool site, I'll check it out