Re: Best Server Software

>From an ISP point of view, there is *no* good POP3/IMAP program for Windows
NT.  I've tried most of the applications you can find, looking for a
replacement for my current SCO Unix machines, but the bottom line was that
any and all NT implementations of SMTP, POP3 and IMAP suffer from the same
problems -- SLOW.

Keep in mind that I'm running an ISP -- with hundreds to thousands of pieces
of mail being sent/received/popped/imapped per minute with hundreds of
domains and thousands of aliases and forwarders.  You may not have the same
needs as I do.

I have clients who use MDaemon... and it kindof works for them... but I
refuse to support them due to the consistent problems they have with it.

IMail from IPSwitch is definitely an improvement over MDaemon.  A very
mature product with all the bells and whistles, but as you mentioned,
there's a higher price tag associated with it.

I settled on RedHat 6.0 with Sendmail 8.9.3 and a slightly customized
version Cyrus IMAP/POP3.  I use LDAP for authentication so password changes
through the web are a snap to implement (using PHP3).
Software cost: $0.00

Good luck.
John
Long Island Internet HeadQuarters


----- Original Message -----
From: Iztok Polanic <iztok(at)hakl-hakl.si>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: Best Server Software


> I'm going to setup in the future an Internet Server on NT (not my choice;
> my choice would be Linux :) and I was wondering which is the best POP3,
> MAP and FTP server for NT. I looked at MDaemon and I it looked good, but
> not as good as iMail, but iMail is too expensive. Is somebody using
> MDaemon? Can you change your password via Web? Can somebody send me an
> example of this page (where you change your password)?

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