As I have been
installing my own personal server I came across one piece of software where I couldn't find what I believed to be satisfying functionality. I ordered my server with Windows 2008 and MS SQL 2008 Web Edition. I found
hMailServer to be a good, reliable mail server and as a bonus it comes with a web interface for configuring it - but there's no webmail, bummer!
I tried searching around for free webmail implementations but most free ones out there are written in
PHP which is not an issue at all my IIS server can run PHP easily - however they either come with an installer written for
Linux or they require you to download seven other components that needs installed.
I was annoyed that I couldn't find any free
ASP.Net implementations at all - so I will set out to make that my project that I can work on once and awhile, while blogging about it here too. Once it has reached a satisfying level of functionality I will start releasing it, along with the source code. I am not exactly sure which license this will end up under - but time will show.
I intend to develop this using ASP.Net MVC, I want this to be usable while easy to install and configure. Also, this will be for the IMAP protocol only.
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