Freeware Mail Server

Filtering mechanisms against Spammers using DNSBL (DNS Black List) and your own Keywords Black List / Friend List are included. Mechanisms against Virus can be used with your Anti-Virus.
Replies can be sent automatically for those abusing Spams and Virus to providers. SpamAssassin can be used.

Mail Clients software such as Opera, Pegasus Mail, Beonex Communicator, The Bat!, Eudora, Mozilla, Mozilla ThunderBird, are supported by the IMAP protocol developed internally. Other mail clients may normally work.

Normally all POP3 Clients should work.

PHP is supported thru IMAP functions. Functions as imap_open, imap_listmailbox, imap_headers, imap_fetch_overview, imap_body, imap_fetchbody, imap_close have been partially tested. Other functions may normally work.
A sample application using PHP that displays mails is available for download (36Ko).

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are supported thru OpenSSL  libraries.

The local SMTP and the local POP3 accounts are now limited to 128 (previously 32). The number of external accounts collected using the retriever is not limited (except by program capacity). There is no time or features limitation. If you need more accounts send me an email.

The program has been tested with 1700 simulated concurrent POP3 users on a Pentium P4 2.4 GHz 512 Mb running Windows NT 2000 Server.
But the suitable range of concurrent users is more likely 100 to 400 concurrent users. (My home computers description).

Why a New Software

Features

Functions	Description
POP3 Client Supported	All POP3 clients should be supported
Authentication	A POP, LOGIN, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, NT LM
IMAP CLients Supported
	Microsoft Outlook
	Microsoft Outlook Express
	Mozilla
	Mozilla ThunderBird
	Eudora
	Opera
	Beonex Communicator
	Pegasus Mail
	The Bat!
Authentication	LOGIN, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, NT LM
WebMail Supported
	Internal WebMail
	SquirrelMail
	IlohaMail
SMTP Receiver Features
Authentication	NONE, LOGIN, PLAIN
SMTP Mailer Features
Authentication	NONE, LOGIN, PLAIN
News Server (NNTP)	Support Feeding
Tunnel	TCP/IP Tunnel with or without SSL. Socks5 Server. Socks4 (Socks4a) Server.
	Secure Socket Layer Thru OpenSSL for POP3S, IMAPS, SMTPS, SNEWS.
Antispam
	White List, Black List
	DNS Black List(DNSBL)
	Reply to Providers of SPAM
	SpamAssassin can be used
Antivirus
	Antivirus Launch on messages
	Message attachment types prohibition
	Reply to Providers of Virus

Information

• SMTP for the sending and receiving of mail messages
• POP3, IMAP and HTTP for the clients mailboxes.
• POP3 Client for mail retrieval (IMAP Client is on development) from external pop3 servers.
• NNTP Clients for the News Server.
• TCP/IP for the Tunnel
• SSL v3 Secure Socket Layer and TLS Transport Layer Security

Spammers are detected using keywords and messages are put apart, to be treated by an Anti-Spam process.

The SMTP Server also uses DnsBL (Dns Black List) functions to identify Spammers.

An advanced Anti-Spam mechanism is provided to find information on Spammers and to prepare a message to be sent to providers or companies that have been abused.

An advanced Virus Reply mechanism is provided to find information on Virus Senders and to send a message to providers or companies where the message containing the virus comes from.
For using this feature you must have a Anti-Virus program able to scan individual message and to report an error status when a virus is found. Norton Antivirus can be used. I now use ClamAV (the an open source GPL AntiVirus) under Windows.

SquirrelMail - Webmail for Nuts

With some modifications SquirrelMail can work as a WebMail client with Macallan Mail Solution.
Setting Squirrel Mail for Windows 200 or Windows XP is detailed at http://www.netdummy.net/squirrelmail.html.
The settings are also described here.

Personally I now use SquirrelMail.

The program has been tested with versions of SquirrelMail 1.4.3a to 1.4.9a (the version I use).
 

SpamAssassin On Windows

Macallan Mail Solution is now able to use SpamAssassin as a Spam Filter.

Information on SpamAssassin can be found at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingOnWindows.
Those settings are also described here.

Even if the SpamAssassin is a little slower than my integrated Spam Control
I now use SpamAssassin.

The program has been tested with SpamAssassin 3.0.2 to version 3.1.0.
I am now using the precompiled version (3.1.7) available at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sawin32/.

A Web Administration is available. It uses the Microsoft Net Framework™.
If you want to install it send me a mail, since there is no documentation.

A language is currently on development to implement rules that will treat messages.

You can develop your own library (dynamic link library) and used it to treat individual messages files.

Problems Fixed & New functions

It is highly recommended to always use the latest version since it contains enhancements and correction.

Current Versions 4.9.05.024

Downloads

Installation procedure uses Microsoft Installer and Microsoft C Runtime 8.0.50727.42.

VERY IMPORTANT: If you used a previous version of the software without the Microsoft Installer, please remove it using the Control Panel  (your files will be kept) and install new software in the same directory.

The following files are the zipped files of the Microsoft Installer files.

If you enjoy this program or if you need some modifications or corrections send me a mail at:
ian.macallan on Gmail (com).

A newsgroup is available at news://macallanmusic.dyndns.org/macallan.mail.solution

Previous Versions

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Future Developments

• It depends on demand

Sources Files

Screen Shot and Pad File

Screen shots can be found at : Image_About.jpg and Image_Users_Management.jpg
The pad file can be found at: pad_file.xml with information listed in pad_file.htm

Download Referenced Sites

MMS Logo

If you want to link my site, you can use this logo I have done in a couple of hours.

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Last Updated: Aug, 15 - 2008 - © 2003-2008 By Macallan