What's a good mail server for development use? [closed]

Answer 1

exim works nice even in windows via cygwin.

Answer 2

Check out courier for unix-based machines. I've run it for quite some time on a linux machine, and it's very nice. You can easily enable/disable the features you want, including SMTP, POP, IMAP, SMTP Auth, SSL versions of protocols, etc.

Answer 3

Mdaemon is an excellent windows MTA. Lots of good reasons to use it in production too. Another different option is to use Gammadyne mailer in server mode.

• http://www.altn.com/products/mdaemon-email-server-windows/
• http://www.hmailserver.com/
• http://www.gammadyne.com/gm-list_management.htm

Answer 4

I consider JAMES the best mail server for development. And its portable too. Fully written in Java.

Answer 5

Mercury Mail Server is a full featured mail server (minus webmail), however it is very light and should meet your need: Mercury Mail Server

Edit: Forgot to mention Windows/Netware only

Answer 6

Take a look at hMailServer.