What's a good mail server for development use?

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What's a good mail server for development use?

I'm doing some development which will involve reacting to emails, and I'd like to use a local IMAP mail server for this.

I currently use Devnull SMTP server for testing of sending emails, but this just logs and discards messages, it doesn't do IMAP for checking incoming emails/mailboxes.

I don't need/want a full-blown server, just something lightweight I can easily start/stop as required.

Multi-platform is preferred, but feel free to provide answer for specific platforms also.

(A POP3-based server would also be acceptable for development use, since I'll be supporting both in my code anyway.)

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Mercury Mail Server is a full featured mail server (minus webmail), however it is very light and should meet your need: Mercury Mail Server

Edit: Forgot to mention Windows/Netware only

Jimmie R. Houts 2009-04-20 21:26:51

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Take a look at hMailServer.

Paul Alexander 2009-04-20 21:46:03

I've used hMail on several of my domains for a few years now, very slick, lightweight server.

Neil N 2009-04-20 21:51:22

I gave Mercury Mail Server and hMail server a whirl. hMail was much, much nicer to deal with. Easier to get installed and with a nice configurator. Very slick. (Of course, I was previously using sendmail built for SUA/Interix.)

Brian Reiter 2009-06-15 12:22:40

I tried out loads for windows, you can't beat hmailserver there.

Razor 2010-09-20 08:26:08

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Check out courier for unix-based machines. I've run it for quite some time on a linux machine, and it's very nice. You can easily enable/disable the features you want, including SMTP, POP, IMAP, SMTP Auth, SSL versions of protocols, etc.

Benson 2009-04-20 22:05:42

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exim works nice even in windows via cygwin.

raticulin 2009-05-07 20:34:50

Mail server alway sofasticated with users & Administration so i choice always (like offline on line webmail (limited with unlimited server with managing all requirements)

cause of not required to troubleshooting from client side mananging remotaly with user friendly.

(Exchange , lotus & groupwise always tuf to maintaning with monitering for each other)

linux unix base with private scriting creating with NAS is always good for user and administration.

Thank and regards

dhaval shah

dhaval shah 2010-09-08 05:22:52

I would recommend hMailServer wich has certain integration with AfterLogic WebMail Pro that covers all your needs and more (multiple domains, mail folders and nested folders, private, shared and public calendar, Address Book (Contacts and Groups), etc.)

You may also take a look at AfterLogic MailSuite Pro for Linux and AfterLogic MailSuite Pro for Windows (SMTP/POP3/IMAP/SSL mail server with AJAX webmail and multiple domains).

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Will 2010-09-20 12:40:34

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I consider JAMES the best mail server for development. And its portable too. Fully written in Java.

Nithesh Chandra 2010-09-20 07:07:26

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