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Has anyone tried this mail server for Windows?

I just installed it and it seems pretty awesome. Does anyone know of anything better?


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Haven't tried FTGate... thanks for the tip. We've got a Dell running NT and using Intermail PostOffice by software.com it seems to be "okay" and not horribly expensive. We have less than 1000 users so traffic isn't too bad either.

I'm checking out FTGate right now - always open to new ideas.

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My fave server hangout....

http://serverwatch.internet.com/

http://serverwatch.internet.com/mailservers.html

http://www.floosietek.com/

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PaulW: Dec 14, 2001, 1:50 PM
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I was always partial to Mdaemon. http://www.deerfield.com
Lavon Russell
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Re: [Bmxer] FTGate In reply to
Hey they've got some pretty cool stuff.

I just downloaded DNS2GO - works well!

http://perl.linux-dude.com/

That URL now points to my pc.

...and with the mail server I just installed I may offer free email @perlmad.com :)
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Re: [PaulW] FTGate In reply to
you gonna use gossamer mail ??? Laugh

openoffice + gimp + sketch ... Smile
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May write my own :)
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Re: [PaulW] FTGate In reply to
Shocked

yeah the license is pretty steep ...


how about something like cpanel/plesk etc ... instead! probably a much bigger market!

openoffice + gimp + sketch ... Smile
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I don't wanna do something like that, it would really suck if it trashed someones server, SO not worth the hassle.
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Re: [Bmxer] FTGate In reply to
Hmmm MDaemon is one mutha of an app....too many options for me :)


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Re: [PaulW] FTGate In reply to
Yeah. I had them when they were at 2.0 which was like 3 or 4 years ago. I was amazed then. They already have a free email thing too called WorldPop. Allows you to offer free email as well as web connecting for users. I also have dns2go and Mdaemon 5. I just noticed all the new apps I haven't seen that they've added. It is alot. I liked them before when they were just an smtp/pop server, but now its still great. I like how you can set up secondary domains as well as the primary one.
Did you notice how dns2go can do redirects and also keeps your ip based on heartbeats. It's great. I swear, chatspace and mdaemon are like my 2 favorite windows apps.
Lavon Russell
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lavon@lh.links247.net

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Bmxer: Dec 14, 2001, 8:28 PM
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Yeah I saw that world client thing but it didn't seem to work for me.

It said it had started the service on port 3002 but it just hangs when you access it.
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Woooooooo I take that back

I re-installed and it is _awesome_

The web client is working. You can setup multiple domains and there are TONS of features...thanks for pointing me to that site!!!!!!

http://perl.linux-dude.com:3000

Username: demo
Password: demo

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PaulW: Dec 15, 2001, 4:42 AM
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http://www.ipswitch.com/...il_Server/index.html

IMail Server 7.0

- wil
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Re: [Wil] FTGate In reply to
Yeah, Imail is pretty good too but last time I checked they didn't have anything like WorldPop. And Deerfield just got better than before because they took over Oreilly's Webserver (which I thought was going to be abandoned).
Lavon Russell
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The Pro version of MDaemon is also $1000 cheaper and has many more features.
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Re: [PaulW] FTGate In reply to
It's been a while since I used WorldClient. How did you get it so you could have people create a new account when they went to port 3000? Mine only shows login fields.
Lavon Russell
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Re: [Bmxer] FTGate In reply to
Ahh I just made a few tweaks here and there :)

(Take a look in WorldClient/Domains.ini for NewAccountCreation=No)
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Re: [PaulW] FTGate In reply to
oh ok, got it. I forgot how fun it was to look around mdaemon. I just can't get smtp to work correctly. I was going to use http://soa.granitecanyon.com for a dns server but they take long.
Lavon Russell
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http://www.zonedit.com
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Re: [PaulW] FTGate In reply to
thats cool. I didn't know there were others that existed like this.
Lavon Russell
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Re: [Bmxer] FTGate In reply to
Damn DNS sucks.

I _hate_ having to wait days....
Waiting for perlmad.com and hothosts.net to point to my pc - taking ages....Unsure
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Re: [PaulW] FTGate In reply to
It could take ages, theoreticaly, Paul.

A domain name server asks the root COM dns server where to find information on yourdomain.com, then goes to the dns server for yourdomain.com to figure out the IP or MX for your domain and subdomains.

Both of those servers have "time to live" settings. The user's DNS box probably will cache the data, and use the cached version for the time specified.

Nothing says the user's DNS has to cache at all. Nothing says that the user's DNS cannot decide to wait 30 days, even if the TTL was specified as 48 hours.

When you change information with your domain registrar, they pass the information to network solutions, who updates their database every day in the late afternoon. So if someone changes their information at 5 PM on Monday, it doesn't get updated until Tuesday afternoon, and that's when the *first* traffic starts dripping in. But someone who visited your old site on Tuesday at 3 PM will get the old data, and so will everyone else who uses that DNS box until Thursday about 3 PM.

Some remote corners of the internet will take a month to find their way to the new location of your website, because they use obsolete DNS information. And there is *nothing* you, or Network Solutions can do about it.

- wil
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Re: [Wil] FTGate In reply to
>>who updates their database every day in the late afternoon.<<

No they don't, they update about every 6 hours. After I updated one of my zone files I went to check at Network Solutions if the change had been processed...it hadn't but it showed the database was last updated at 3.20am,
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Hmm. They used to do them all at just after 5pm. But you get my point, though? It could take weeks for your MX records to be updated properly.

- wil
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