The Bottom Line
IMail Server is a solid and tested mail server that combines a hands-on approach of essential features with powerful spam filtering options and a wide support of standards.
Pros
- IMail Server is easy to set up yet powerful
- Solid anti-spam features and filtering
- IMail Server comes with feature-rich and comfortable web-based email
Cons
- Not all IMail modules are equally powerful and flexible
- IMail doesn't include a POP email collector
- Lacks a flexible interface to virus scanners
Description
- IMail Server is a POP, IMAP, SMTP and LDAP mail server.
- IMail Server also comes with a rich web-based interface to mail and calendaring.
- Support for TLS/SSL connections across protocols lets you send and get mail securely with IMail.
- IMail Server can use DNS RBLs, Bayesian statistics, keyword filters and more to stop spam.
- You can also use simple rules to automatically filter incoming as well as outgoing mail per user.
- IMail Server uses its own user database, the Windows NT/2000/3/XP database or any ODBC database.
- Includes a list server for discussion and announcement lists (not available in free IMail Express).
- The IMail Log Analyzer utility can compile the crude log files to interesting information.
- IMail Server supports Windows NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - IMail Server 8.12 - Mail Server
IMail Server is not a highly polished feature behemoth. The individual modules of this mail server aren't all equally well developed. Some don't even let you set the port they listen to.
That's about the worst that can be said about IMail Server, though, and there is a very positive side to it, too: IMail Server approaches email with a hands-on approach and (usually) offers what you need.
Take the myriad of anti-spam options, for example, which even include server-side Bayesian filtering (which lacks a way to train it per user, though). Or the fact that IMail Server does not come without a fully featured LDAP server, like many other mail servers do. More antivirus options would be nice, though.
