I have used hMailServer for testing of various email related functions including anti-spam software and configurations. The hMailServer interface is very intuitive and easy to use. All Email data and accounts utilize either MS-SQL or MySQL databases for the back-end support. If you don’t feel like setting up and configuring a SQL server, no worries, hMailServer includes a lite version of MySQL as part of the installer package. Pretty Cool eh? What’s even cooler is that a novice administrator can be up and hosting an email domain within 15 minutes using hMail. Here’s a brief description of the product from their website:

hMailServer is a free e-mail server for Microsoft Windows. It supports all the common e-mail protocols (IMAP, SMTP and POP3) and comes with an easy-to-use COM library that can be used for integration with other software. It also has support for virtual domains, distribution lists, antivirus, anti-spam, aliases, distributed domains and much more. E-mail data is stored in a database server, MySQL or MS SQL, depending on your choice.

The hMailServer installation contains a minimal MySQL-installation, so if you don’t already have a database server in your network, MySQL is installed automatically when you install hMailServer.

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