July 1, 201313 yr Hi all. Looking for suggestions for a lightweight email server (windows 7/2008 R2 or linux (ubuntu server 12). Not sure if one is available but I prefer to not run it as an unraid pluging...trying to move away from things running on top of unraid altogether. All I really want to use it for is to have vCenter Server send me notifications but it requires an internal SMTP server. My one requirement...I want somthing VERY simple to configure. I was looking at this: http://www.hmailserver.com/ Does anyone have any experience? TIA! John
July 1, 201313 yr No experience with it ... but thanks for the link => HMailServer does indeed look very interesting. I downloaded it and am going to set it up on a spare machine just to try it
July 1, 201313 yr Hi all. Looking for suggestions for a lightweight email server (windows 7/2008 R2 or linux (ubuntu server 12). Not sure if one is available but I prefer to not run it as an unraid pluging...trying to move away from things running on top of unraid altogether. All I really want to use it for is to have vCenter Server send me notifications but it requires an internal SMTP server. My one requirement...I want somthing VERY simple to configure. I was looking at this: http://www.hmailserver.com/ Does anyone have any experience? TIA! John I have been using hmailserver for several months. I don't remember exactly about configuration but I don't think it was too difficult. Once I set it up I have not needed to touch it. I use DeltaCopy for scheduled rsync from my Win7 PC to unRAID and DeltaCopy will send email notifications from a local SMTP server so that is why I have been using it. Probably haven't really exercised its full capabilities.
July 1, 201313 yr While I know that you said you wanted something simple and not running on unRAID, I wanted to throw some ideas into the pit. I had configured exim as a mail delivery agent and an imap daemon on the unRAID server. While I did not use the mail delivery agent all that much, archiving mail via imap really saved my butt. I had configured Thunderbird to archive all of my mail onto the unRAID imap server automatically. So when I needed to access historical mail recently. I was able to access it pretty effortlessly. It's just a thought, unRAID might be a good place to archive your mail via imap.
July 3, 201313 yr ...thanks for linking to hmailserver. I see that it supports fetching mail from external accounts. What I am looking for is the ability to send/deliver mail (forward to ISP) to these accounts, based on the sender address. My ISP does not offer an MX-record and I don't want to host a mail-server to receive mail from outside. People in my home have their own external POP/IMAP mail-accounts (yes, everyone has at least two) with several providers, so each person has multiple identities. So outgoing mail needs to go to the correct/corresponding external account, using the correct credentials. Is there a product that allows for local users - the fetching from multiple identities - the selection of the identity the mail will be created/send with - and then deliver/forward the outbound mail to the correct external account? TIA, ford
July 4, 201313 yr Is there a product that allows for local users - the fetching from multiple identities - the selection of the identity the mail will be created/send with - and then deliver/forward the outbound mail to the correct external account? Look at Dovecot - I have been running it as an unRAID plugin for some considerable time, and using mpop as the fetcher.
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