Anyone got any good recommendations on Mail server software ?
I'm on a reasonable budget but dont wanna be paying $1000 for 10 users per domain etc etc. Its already starting to rack up costs moving from a reseller hosting account up to dedicated.
Looked at IMAIL .. seems ok but maybe pricey -- any others ppl would recommend.
DougK94
03-28-2002, 10:14 PM
Take a look at Merak www.icewarp.com (http://www.icewarp.com)
ckpeter
03-28-2002, 11:54 PM
Try also JAMES from apache. It is a mail server written in java, so it runs on many platforms.
Peter
MotleyFool
03-29-2002, 01:33 AM
You can also look at the option of outsourcing your mailserver to a Unix/Linux provider as even hotmail runs on Unix I think
Cheers
Balaji
vselvara
03-29-2002, 05:19 AM
ckpeter: Try also JAMES from apache. It is a mail server written in java, so it runs on many platforms.
How is JAMES? It looks very reliable. Must be better than sendmail.
ckpeter
03-29-2002, 10:57 AM
To tell you the truth, I have never used it. However, I did do a fair amount of browsing and researching. From what I saw, the feature list seems almost completed. Its java, so its pretty reliable and scalable. Since I am a java programmer, I also like the fact that I can easily write mailets to customize it.
Peter
I do like the look of Merak. Looks like i only need the standard edition which is only $280 which is a great price for the features its got.
Anyone using this can recommend it ?
vselvara
03-30-2002, 10:10 AM
I downloaded james-2.0a2 and looked around. To start it up, its just like tomcat, just run the startup script and thats it. For configuration, it looks very straight forward. Its fully driven by xml files. Everything is a lot clearer and more understandable (unlike sendmail.cf). It even has built in spam filters! I am going to try this out on a test machine. I think this will be a good alternative to sendmail.
