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This is a list of mail servers: mail transfer agents, mail delivery agents, and other computer software which provide e-mail services. A mail transfer agent or MTA (also called a mail transport agent, mail server, or a mail exchanger in the context of the Domain Name System) is a computer program or software agent that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another. ... A Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) is software that accepts incoming e-mail messages and distributes them to recipients individual mailboxes (if the destination account is on the local machine), or forwards back to an SMTP server (if the destination is on a remote server). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Computer program. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for e-mail transmissions across the Internet. ... The Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server (a. ... @Mail is a commercial open source WebMail, Mail-Server and Groupware solution designed by Calacode, location in Sydney, Australia. ... // AXIGEN is a fast, reliable and secure mail transfer agent (MTA), providing SMTP/ESMTP, IMAP, POP3 and Webmail services, with an integrated Mailing List server. ... More screenshots on the project site // What is Citadel? Citadel (formerly Citadel/UX) is an open source groupware (messaging and collaboration) software package, written to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD. It is designed to be a messaging platform that you can build a community... The ColdSpark SparkEngine is a commercial, enterprise mail transport platform developed by ColdSpark, Inc. ... CommuniGate Pro is a Stalker software based Internet Communications Server providing various protocol services. ... The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL/TLS, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent framework. ... Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used in Unix-like operating systems. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ... Lotus Domino is a IBM server product that provides e-mail and collaboration capabilities. ... Kerio MailServer is secure mail server developed by Kerio Technologies. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the topic of this article may be unencyclopedic. ... Mailtraq ® is a secure mail server oriented primarily towards small businesses, the government and education sectors and communication consultants. ... The Merak Email Server Merak Email Server is a Mail Transfer Agent package developed by IceWarp Software. ... David Harris is a software developer. ... Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. ... MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a mail transfer agent (MTA) originally developed at the University of Delaware in the late 1970s. ... GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. ... Novell NetMail is an ISP-grade E-Mail package by Novell, Inc. ... Postfix is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email, that is intended as a fast, easy to administer and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail. ... qmail is a mail transfer agent that runs on Unix. ... Scalix is an e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux. ... Sendmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that is a well known project of the open source, free software and Unix communities, which is distributed both as free software and proprietary software. ... SmarterMail is commercial web-based e-mail software that web hosting providers, businesses, or individuals can install on a server to host email. ... Sun Java Systems brand suppersedes Sun ONE brand on September 2003. ... WinGate is an integrated Internet Gateway Management system. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy a proposed guideline for notability (see Wikipedia:Notability (software)). If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability. ... XMail is a free open-source POP3/ESMTP mail server for Unix and Microsoft Windows operating systems. ... Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product created by Zimbra Inc. ... ZMailer is a Mail Transfer Agent for Linux and other UNIX-like systems. ...

POP/IMAP

In computing, local e-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP or IMAP4, and previously called Internet Mail Access Protocol, Interactive Mail Access Protocol (RFC 1064), and Interim Mail Access Protocol [1] ) is an application layer Internet protocol that allows a local client to access e-mail on a remote server. ... The Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server (a. ... // AXIGEN is a fast, reliable and secure mail transfer agent (MTA), providing SMTP/ESMTP, IMAP, POP3 and Webmail services, with an integrated Mailing List server. ... BincIMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir. ... Maildir is a format for an e-mail spool that does not require file locking to maintain message integrity because the messages are kept in separate files with unique names. ... Bluebottle can mean: Bluebottle, a character in The Goon Show a general name for several species of fly, particularly the blow-fly of the genus Calliphora several species of physalia, particularly physalia utriculus, a marine siphonophore resembling a jellyfish an outdated British slang term for a police officer. ... More screenshots on the project site // What is Citadel? Citadel (formerly Citadel/UX) is an open source groupware (messaging and collaboration) software package, written to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD. It is designed to be a messaging platform that you can build a community... CommuniGate Pro is a Stalker software based Internet Communications Server providing various protocol services. ... The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL/TLS, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent framework. ... Maildir is a format for an e-mail spool that does not require file locking to maintain message integrity because the messages are kept in separate files with unique names. ... The Cyrus IMAP server differs from other IMAP server implementations in that it is generally intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in. ... Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. ... Buni Meldware Communication Suite is an open source messaging and collaborative software product developed by Buni. ... Kerio MailServer is secure mail server developed by Kerio Technologies. ... Lotus Domino is a IBM server product that provides e-mail and collaboration capabilities. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the topic of this article may be unencyclopedic. ... Mailtraq ® is a secure mail server oriented primarily towards small businesses, the government and education sectors and communication consultants. ... The Merak Email Server Merak Email Server is a Mail Transfer Agent package developed by IceWarp Software. ... David Harris is a software developer. ... Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. ... Novell NetMail is an ISP-grade E-Mail package by Novell, Inc. ... SmarterMail is commercial web-based e-mail software that web hosting providers, businesses, or individuals can install on a server to host email. ... The UW IMAP server is the reference server implementation of the IMAP protocol. ... Mbox is the name for several different things, including an electronic mail file format. ... WinGate is an integrated Internet Gateway Management system. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy a proposed guideline for notability (see Wikipedia:Notability (software)). If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability. ... Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product created by Zimbra Inc. ...

Mail filtering

A mail filter is a piece of software which takes an input of an e-mail message. ... The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) server project is an Open Source platform-independent transparent SMTP proxy server that leverages numerous methodologies and technologies to both rigidly and adaptively identify spam. ... Bayesian filtering is the process of using Bayesian statistical methods to classify documents into categories. ... Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies e-mail as spam or ham (non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the messages header and content (body). ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Effective corporate server level antispam // Advanced Bayesian pattern matching Neural network sender matching technology Automatic Whitelists Challenge Response Advanced Image Analysis Optional Antivirus Server based anti-spam Microsoft Exchange Integration (for all versions) Supports all SMTP servers Hexamail Guard ensures SPAM is eliminated at the server level with no need... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mailtraq ® is a secure mail server oriented primarily towards small businesses, the government and education sectors and communication consultants. ... Procmail is a mail delivery agent (MDA) or mail filter, a program to process incoming emails on a computer, widely used on Unix systems. ... Sophos PureMessage is an anti-spam program by Sophos plc, which is aimed primarily at corporate environments. ... SpamAssassin is a computer program released freely under the Apache License 2. ... WinGate is an integrated Internet Gateway Management system. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy a proposed guideline for notability (see Wikipedia:Notability (software)). If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability. ... Vipuls Razor is a checksum based distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network. ...

Comparison of mail servers

Mail server Server OS support Features Storage License
Linux/Unix Windows Mac OS X SMTP POP3 IMAP SMTP over TLS POP over TLS NNTP SSL Webmail Database Filesystem Other
Apache James Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes  ? Yes No No Yes Yes No Open Source/ASLv2
BincIMAP Yes No Yes No No Yes No No  ? Yes No No Yes No Open source/GPL
Courier Mail Server Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No Open Source
Exim Yes via Cygwin Yes Yes No No Yes No  ? Yes No No Yes No Open Source
GroupWise Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes No No Proprietary
IBM Lotus Domino Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes No No Proprietary
Kerio MailServer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes No Yes No Proprietary
Meldware Mail Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No Open source/LGPL
Merak Mail Server Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Proprietary
Microsoft Exchange No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes ESE only No No Proprietary
NetMail Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes No No Proprietary
Postfix Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No Open source/IBM Public License
Qmail Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No  ? No No No Yes No free-to-use
Sendmail Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No No No ? ? ? Open source/Sendmail License
SmarterMail No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Proprietary
WinGate No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes Yes No Yes No Proprietary
WorkgroupMail No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No  ? Yes Yes Yes No No Proprietary
Zimbra Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?  ? Yes Yes No Yes No Open Source/Proprietary
Mail server Login Authentication
SMTP AUTH POP before SMTP APOP Filesystem Database LDAP Other
Courier Mail Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Pluggable Authentication Modules, userdb, CRAM, LDAP, MySQL, vchkpw/vpopmail, PostgreSQL(beta)
Exim Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Cyrus SASL, CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN, SPA
GroupWise Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes eDirectory, Any LDAPv3-compliant source
NetMail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes eDirectory, LDAP
Apache James Yes  ?  ?  ? Yes Yes  ?
Meldware Mail Server Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?
Microsoft Exchange Yes  ? Yes No No Yes Active Directory
Kerio MailServer Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Active Directory, Apple Open Directory, ActiveSync, Pluggable Authentication Modules
Postfix Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?
Merak Mail Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NT Domain, Active Directory
SmarterMail Yes No  ? Yes No No Active Directory, CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN
WinGate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No NT Domain, Active Directory, CRAM-MD5, SASL PLAIN, SASL LOGIN
WorkgroupMail Yes No No No Yes Yes NT Domain, Active Directory
Zimbra Yes  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Internal, LDAP

Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for email transmission across the Internet. ... Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application layer Internet standard protocol used to retrieve email from a remote server to a local client over a TCP/IP connection. ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ... Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for email transmission across the Internet. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... In computing, local e-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among news servers. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... Webmail is a class of web applications that allow users to read and write e-mail using a web browser, or in a more general sense, an e-mail account accessed through such an application. ... In computing , a database can be defined as a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer so that a program can consult it to answer queries. ... See Filing system for this term as it is used in libraries and offices In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. ... The Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server (a. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The Apache Software License is an open source license used by the Apache Software Foundation. ... BincIMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL/TLS, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent framework. ... Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used in Unix-like operating systems. ... GroupWise is a collaboration software product from Novell, Inc. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ... Lotus Domino is a IBM server product that provides e-mail and collaboration capabilities. ... Kerio MailServer is secure mail server developed by Kerio Technologies. ... Buni Meldware Communication Suite is an open source messaging and collaborative software product developed by Buni. ... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. ... The Merak Email Server Merak Email Server is a Mail Transfer Agent package developed by IceWarp Software. ... Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. ... Disambig: for the teachers term, refer to ESE (teaching). ... NetMail is a collaborative software server from Novell, positioned as a rival to the Lotus Notes / Domino server from IBM and Microsoft Exchange Server. ... Postfix is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email, that is intended as a fast, easy to administer and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail. ... The IBM Public License is a free software / open-source software license used by IBM. It is ratified by the Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation (FSF). ... qmail is a mail transfer agent that runs on Unix. ... Sendmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that is a well known project of the open source, free software and Unix communities, which is distributed both as free software and proprietary software. ... SmarterMail is commercial web-based e-mail software that web hosting providers, businesses, or individuals can install on a server to host email. ... WinGate is an integrated Internet Gateway Management system. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy a proposed guideline for notability (see Wikipedia:Notability (software)). If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability. ... Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product created by Zimbra Inc. ... SMTP-AUTH extends SMTP (the Internet e-mail transmission protocol) to include an authentication step through which the client effectively logs in to the mail server during the process of sending mail. ... POP before SMTP or SMTP after POP is a method of authorization used by mail server software which helps allow users the option to send e-mail from any location, as long as they can demonstrably also fetch their mail from the same place. ... APop can refer to: Apoptygma Berzerk APOP (Email Protocol) Apop Records is an independent record label based in Houston, Texas, which features such acts as The Entertainment System. ... See Filing system for this term as it is used in libraries and offices In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... In computing , a database can be defined as a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer so that a program can consult it to answer queries. ... In computer networking, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP (IPA: ), is a networking protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP. A directory is a set of information with similar attributes organized in a logical and hierarchical manner. ... The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL/TLS, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent framework. ... Pluggable authentication modules or PAM are a mechanism to integrate multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level API, which allows for programs that rely on authentication to be written independently of the underlying authentication scheme. ... MySQL (pronounced ) is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System (DBMS) with more than six million installations. ... PostgreSQL is a free software object-relational database management system (ORDBMS), released under a BSD-style license. ... Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used in Unix-like operating systems. ... GroupWise is a collaboration software product from Novell, Inc. ... Novell eDirectory (formerly called Novell Directory Services) is an X.500 compatible directory service software product released in 1993 by Novell, Inc. ... NetMail is a collaborative software server from Novell, positioned as a rival to the Lotus Notes / Domino server from IBM and Microsoft Exchange Server. ... The Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server (a. ... Buni Meldware Communication Suite is an open source messaging and collaborative software product developed by Buni. ... Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. ... Kerio MailServer is secure mail server developed by Kerio Technologies. ... Open Directory is the directory service and network authentication services architecture at the core of Mac OS X Server from Apple Computer. ... ActiveSync is a synchronisation program developed by Microsoft Corporation. ... Pluggable authentication modules or PAM are a mechanism to integrate multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level API, which allows for programs that rely on authentication to be written independently of the underlying authentication scheme. ... Postfix is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email, that is intended as a fast, easy to administer and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail. ... The Merak Email Server Merak Email Server is a Mail Transfer Agent package developed by IceWarp Software. ... SmarterMail is commercial web-based e-mail software that web hosting providers, businesses, or individuals can install on a server to host email. ... WinGate is an integrated Internet Gateway Management system. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy a proposed guideline for notability (see Wikipedia:Notability (software)). If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability. ... Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product created by Zimbra Inc. ...

External links

  • Mail Servers in Google Directory
  • MTA Comparison article by Dan Shearer, last updated January 2007

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