What's a good Windows e-mail server. Should I stick with Linux for E-mail servers?
.john

http://www.merakmail.com

We use Imail

http://www.ipswitch.com - although not the cheapest, has alot of features, and not to bad having to maintain it.

does Imail let users create their own boxes and limit them to a certain amount?

.john

is there any less xpensive e-mail servers that work good?
.john

Yes, it lets users create thier own boxes, setup quota's, really have full control over the whole mail system. As far as a cheaper solution for this, I am not really sure, maybe you can find a used license for this on here somewhere.....

anyone have a used licence for this? e-mail me,
john@digitaloutrage.com

Best Regards,
.John

you can also check out ntmail kinda nice system lets u do all that fancy user admin stuff http://www.gordano.com

Carlos

If you need to run a mailserver on windows, you can also check out JAMES, which is a java mail server.

Go to apache.org to find out.

Peter

i dunno about java and mail java is nice for somethings but not all just my 2 cents

Just because you don't know about java doesn't mean it isn't appropriate. "java is nice for somethings but not all " is such a generic statement. Do you have any experience you want to share on why java can't be used to program a mail server?

Peter

actully i have had this custom java program sucked the machine dry of it's resources had it re written in c thing runs 100x faster and dosnt suck up all the resources. just my 2 cents.

los

I am sorry that you have encountered a badly-programmed java program. I am sure I can write a C program that will suck up your system resources even faster. When did you have that program? Remember(if you didn't already know), java VM technology is constantly improving. Right now for many tasks the VM is on par with native code performance.

If you encounter a bad program written in C, would you come out and say that every C program is bad? Also, have you consider that a mail server is a server side program, and that many times it is the architecture, rather than simple execution speed, that determines the runtime performance. A mail server written in java is inherently more reliable than a C program(given the language construct). And this particular mail server I mention has DB and LDAP support, with custom mailet plugin API, which makes it scalable and extensible.

My point is, unless you have good reason(e.g. specific experience with this particular program), you shouldn't just trash a program for the language it was written in. Needless that to say, some of the largest site on the internet use java technology, so it isn't even a true statement in general to say that java programs "suck".

Peter

I was looking into Apache James and am very interested. I like the way the configuration is VERY clean! It only uses a couple xml files and are very understandable unlike sendmail. And java is a very secure language. I usually trust anything that comes out of the apache group but knowing that its written in Java, I trust it even more. As soon as there is a native JDK 1.3 for FreeBSD I think I'll switch over to Apache James.

Even for Windows I would go with Apache James. Unless you are planning on spamming the planet, Apache James will be plenty fast.

Originally posted by interactive6
What's a good Windows e-mail server. Should I stick with Linux for E-mail servers?
.john

I've been testing mailenable (www.mailenable.com) recently. Its solid as a rock has everything you need, the logging is the best and most useful of all the server apps and what's brilliant is that the standard version (support unlimited domains/addresses) is free!