Monday, August 18th, 2008
hMailServer is a free e-mail server for Microsoft Windows. It supports all the common e-mail protocols such as, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP.
If you are on a tight budget to purchase a commercial mail server, this is a good choice of having a reliable mail server that cost virtually nothing, except your effort you put to configure it.
I wrote this installation guide based on my experience in setting up a workable system.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Streamyx issued a notice in its web site informing its users about an anti-spam exercise to mitigate spam in its network.
The action taken was by blocking outgoing SMTP port 25 for all outgoing e-mails from dynamic IP addresses to non-Streamyx mail servers.
In other words, if your company hosts its own mail server, the employees will not be able to send outgoing e-mails if they are connected from home to the office mail server via Streamyx.
SMTP port 25 is a standard outgoing port for most e-mail client software such as, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, and etc.
Streamyx offered several alternative configuration options. Users may either relay their mail server to Streamyx’s SMTP or use port 587 for all outgoing e-mails.
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