What are you using for a mail server?

[Jim A]

Hi All: I'm curious to know how you've handled the email server issue when you host your own website/web apps.  Normally, the ISP provides the email server with the website.  How are you handling this if you move to your own server?

I'm looking at the mail server from capesoft.  Please excuse my ignorance:  do you have to setup an SQL database to store all of the emails? Or, do they get stored elsewhere?

Thanks for your patience and help.

Jim

[Bruce]

Hi Jim,

>> I'm curious to know how you've handled the email server issue when you host your own website/web apps.

I just use the CapeSoft Email Server <g>.

>> do you have to setup an SQL database to store all of the emails?

no.

>>  Or, do they get stored elsewhere?

They are stored as individual EML files in the Email Server data folder. (you can find that using the option in the Advanced menu.)
But they're not "stored" for very long. Usually they are deleted by the client after they are fetched. You could archive them I guess at the server, but I'm not the NSA so I don't bother.

cheers
Bruce

[Jim A]

Thanks Bruce.  Easier than I thought it would be.