Re: [Assp-user] SMTP Server?

[Charles M. <CM...@Me...>]

Jeff Buehler wrote:
>>> XMail is great, stable, fast and runs on Windows as a service, as 
>>> well as Linux, *BSD, etc.  It is a little non-graphical in nature for 
>>> most Windows users, but I have been using for about 5 years to handle 
>>> thousands of emails a day and it works great with ASSP.

>> But it apparently doesn't do IMAP, which is the only way to go for
>> email... :)

> IMAP is the only way to go IF you aren't hosting hundreds (or
> thousands, or more) of different users. I prefer POP3 for hosting - I
> like users to download email and get it off my servers (not that they
> have to, but in general everyone configures POP3 that way).

But we weren't talking about from a hosting perspective...

And that said, there are lots of large hosting companies that offer IMAP 
access, some very inexpensively. As long as they properly implement 
quota's, storage shgouldn't be a problem, and it gives them another 
revenue stream as well (charge more for more storage).

> You can use both IMAP and SSL with XMail by the way. There is a
> how-to with Courier IMAP (which may or may not be available under
> Windows - I would run run FreeBSD if you can anyway) and there is a
> compiled version with SSL support that I have not tried, so there are
> work arounds for these two issues.

Good point - but I prefer Postfix for my MTA, anbd Courier for my IMAP 
server.

I love maildir - now if the Mozilla people would just get their act 
together and build native support for maildir in Thunderbird...

-- 

Charles