I've used Mdaemon for a longgg time, since the days of dial up connections! Really great piece of software. Low server overhead and processess high mail volumes with no trouble at all and amazingly fast - by far the fastest I have ever used. It also handles attachments well, if you are integrating it with CF. It has a built in DSN for database connectivity which is great for managing large mail lists.
Smartermail is good, but I would not personally recommend it for high mail volumes. I have also had problems getting mail attachments into cfpop with Smartermail. They both offer a web interface as well as pop,imap and smtp. For anti-spam I prefer Mdaemon, especially as Smartermail does not (with the version I have) stop bounces and this can even get your server blacklisted if the volumes are high. Smartmail has a SOAP based API which is great for integration, I built a customer portal so they can manage theor own email accounts, etc I like MS Exchange, but the downside is the server overhead, espscially if you don't even want a lot of the features. iMail I found to be buggy as hell, and I'm being kind. Cheap, tacky and doesn't live up to the sales pitch. Hope this helps, Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 July 2010 20:37 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: (ot) Mail servers I've been using MDaemon for years and found that it works great. Other mail servers I've used and didn't much care for include Coolfusion IMS Lite and Gordano NTMail (way long time ago). Been using MDaemon for 8 years now here at Duke as a small departmental mail server (now it serves exclusively as a mailing list server and hosts the POP3 part of our ticketing system which I built in CF). I've also had one or two cases over the years where I needed to call Alt-N for MDaemon support, and found them to be very helpful as well. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335508 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
