[NTLUG:Discuss] new mail server options

[Courtney Grimland]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:57 -0600, MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

>>Greetings.
>>
>>I would like to get opinions on various packages for email.  (Not trying to
>>start flame wars, just wanting pros & cons and possibly alternatives...)
>>    
>>
Just to throw out another alternative that I use at home for my personal 
domains -- XMail.  It's simple to set up and administer, and has POP 
built in, is GPL, and runs on any OS.  It's easy to script admin stuff 
with it's admin server on port 6017.  I'll admit that I have no real 
experience with any other mail server though, so I can't offer any 
comparisons.

 From their website (http://www.xmailserver.org):

XMail is an Internet and intranet mail server featuring an SMTP server, 
POP3 server, finger server, multiple domains, no need for users to have 
a real system account, SMTP relay checking, RBL/RSS/ORBS/DUL and custom 
( IP based and address based ) spam protection, SMTP authentication ( 
PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 POP3-before-SMTP and custom ), a POP3 account 
syncronizer with external POP3 accounts, account aliases, domain 
aliases, custom mail processing, direct mail files delivery, custom mail 
filters, mailing lists, remote administration, custom mail exchangers, 
logging, and multi-platform code. XMail sources compile under GNU/Linux, 
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSX, Solaris and NT/2K/XP.