Thanks Mr. X, it's looking better to me as time progresses and I may just go for it and take the time to learn it! I was working on a control panel solution for Windows until now, and from what I hear there are tons of them for NIX many which are free. NIX could potentially solve a lot of issues if I could ever feel confident about not being rooted by the bad guys.
I suppose we should take it offlist if it went any further. However, let me state that I honestly don't know why anyone would run anything other than a *NIX solution if they had the technical expertise. Honestly, Imail is no match for a *NIX solution. Imail's strength is in its ease of use for people that are all windows.
If you are serious about it, dig up some old hardware, install FreeBSD on it and follow something like below to get a mail server going:
http://high5.net/howto/
In addition, read a little about IPF rules and turn it on so your server isn't wide open to the world. Then just stay up to date on security issues related to what services you do have open to the world (i.e. smtp, pop3, imap).
Imail serves a purpose, however, it is far from the best MTA / mailbox solution available. Especially for an ISP and or hosting provider. Believe it or not some of the "best" solutions are actually free, they just require some technical expertise.
BTW, installing ports on FreeBSD is fairly straight forward. You can literally have postfix (your MTA) up and running in a few commands.
change to the proper ports directory and then make install.
All that being said, I do have customers that require windows only products such as Imail and I am waiting to see how they handle this whole thing.
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