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I'm building a demo computer for presentation. The demos require to send / receive emails for some demo users (3 or 4).
What is the simplest, free way, to have a local mail server (pop or imap and smtp) ?
As it's a demo computer, I don't care about security, performance, advanced features, etc. The only requirement is that the solution must be light as I'll run a lots of apps on the single computer.
FYI, the demo computer won't have internet connection, and is running Windows 2008 R2 x64. The target client is Outlook 2010 X64.
Steve B
Posted 2012-01-04T09:35:38.720
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You want to send emails to ? yourself? because you said there is no internet... If you install Windows Server with Exchange then it will work.. or you can use ubuntu with postfix too.. – Piotr Kula – 2012-01-04T09:44:34.960
send email locally from user1 to user2, for demonstration purpose. Do you really think Exchange is a light solution ? – Steve B – 2012-01-04T09:48:24.877
Yea- because when you isntall Windows Server with Exchange.. It is there out of the box no messing around. Setting up other users is easy as pie.. because the exhange sets up the other users on other domain users.. in 1 click.. user1 sent to user2 .. isntant. Installing 3rd party.. you will spend half your life configuring smtp/pop accounts.. ontop of a server – Piotr Kula – 2012-01-04T09:52:37.507
1exchange is not out of the box with windows server... and it's so heavy I'll need to have a separate server to run it. Lastly, I don't need 3000 users... only 3 or 4. it's for demonstration purpose, as I said. – Steve B – 2012-01-04T10:12:10.610
http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html – Piotr Kula – 2012-01-04T10:13:40.873
Yea sorry- i was thinking of server2003 with exchange.. or this ? http://www.hmailserver.com/
– Piotr Kula – 2012-01-04T10:16:16.673If you wanted a complete mailserver setup which would be easy and fairly light (depends on your host PC) then postfix running off a VM would totally isolate the mailserver from anything else - it would even have a seperate IP... It's also free! :) – HaydnWVN – 2012-01-04T11:26:31.873
as the computer have 4GB of ram, and as it will run sharepoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010 simultaneously, I can't afford virtualizing a separate OS – Steve B – 2012-01-04T12:28:40.917
Doesn't take much resources to run postfix, i've happily run it on a P2-550 with 64mb RAM before now... Or that could've been sendmail... – HaydnWVN – 2012-01-04T13:45:54.643
1LOL @ the Exchange idea. "I've bought with me this Boeing 747 to teach the class how an airplane wing works" – surfasb – 2012-01-04T16:10:00.243