What's a good standalone IMAP server for WinXP Pro?

May 3, 2004 11:57 AM

What's a good standalone IMAP server for WinXP Pro?
posted by signal to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

free? there's UW's IMAP, which is pretty famous although i've not used it (i use courier, which is fine, but unix only as far as i can tell). UW link to this database of implementations, which looks useful.
posted by andrew cooke at 12:06 PM on May 3, 2004

Do you want IMAP access to an existing mail server that doesn't do IMAP natively, and if so which one? Or do you want a mail server that does IMAP?

If the latter, I can recommend Stalker's CommuniGate Pro, although it's not cheap. They do have a fully-functional unlimited-time evaluation mode, though, that just puts a "Sent by CommuniGate Pro" notice on all your mail.

(A server that only does IMAP wouldn't be very useful because there's no way for anyone to send you mail.)
posted by kindall at 12:19 PM on May 3, 2004

Personally, I've been using Pegasus Mail around our office to great effect. Seems to work pretty darn well...
posted by ph00dz at 12:51 PM on May 3, 2004

I second uw-imap, I use it under cygwin. If you want a full mail server (not just an IMAP server to sit in front of your already-in-place mail server), the aforementioned Pegasus mail is dandy.
posted by mfbridges at 1:31 PM on May 3, 2004

Response by poster: I'm looking for a mail server with IMAP capabilities that runs on XP Pro.
posted by signal at 3:55 PM on May 3, 2004