1. It uses mainstream, tried and tested components
2. It is very stable
3. Easy and fast to deploy

I also have a question for Orta, where can we see your research paper? You can contact me here or at my site, I would love to see it.

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Carlon from things to do in pa

can you share your research paper about opensource mail ?

If your command would make simple method of making backups (and faster recovery on other systems) and (I made separate topic ) easy method of migration from another mail servers... mmmm... such beautiful future!!!

A bare basic install seems simple; install qmail, link it with spamassassin and a virus scanner, setup a POP3 and IMAP server, and put up SquirrelMail or RoundCube and you're ready to go. But in reality it's a major pain the butt. All of these products are developed by different people and, on varying distros, provide a challenge when there are different paths and configurations and different flags passed to the compiler, etc. Throw on top of that the need for authentication and LDAP and multiple webmail systems and a calendar and virtual users and virtual domains and many other things, and it quickly becomes overwhelming.

It's easy then to just purchase a commercial all-in-one setup, and I would do that at times depending on the install. Another good free full-featured setup was 'qmail toaster' but there are a lot of issues compiling and configuring this on some systems as it's not as actively developed (if not at all) as it should be.

BOTTOM LINE --

I chose iRedMail because it is actively developed, is quick to configure and setup (relatively) and even has a Linux distribution with it pre-installed ready to go out of the box, and is full featured. I have had some issues with it but it's mainly because I am unfamiliar with postfix. I am learning how to properly modify postfix and amavisd and policyd configuration files and it is becoming easier.

If iRedMailAdmin was more featured in order to allow easy configuration of postfix, policyd and amavisd (as well as spamassassin rules for it), it would be much better. Also an easy e-mail alias/forward system would be nice. Qmail Toaster did all of this. I'd like to see it here!

Thanks for the great product and keep it up. If I continue to find use for it I'll buy the professional package/setup. $99 is very fair!

Thanks,

Brandon

My answers :
Yes...yes...yes...

Thats all my reason...

i hope, there's a volunteer to develope "special webmailclient for this" especially for the themes

Makes things easier to maintain and eaiser to get support.

My answers are
1. Fast to deploy...takes not more then 30 minutes to get it up and running
2. Some features can be still added, and some can be improved but I have all that I need at the moment.
3.Stable. Only some issues with LDAP database on unclean shutdown but this is an LDAP issue.
4.Use CentOS...and everything is super fine.
5. This forum is great...hope it will remain so. After deploying and installing when having free time will answer questions if dealed with problem.
6.This is indeed good because a lot of good projects stopped development. I will try to make donations on regular basic when I'll get my credit card.
7.Yes
8.All the components are tested by time and the community.

So I just want to say thanks to the developers and good luck in the future.

so am i .. so thanks to developers  ... alot of thanks from Indonesia

Easy and fast to deploy without pain?
Full-featured?

Those are my reasons. Setting up a full-featured mail server could take days. I also tried various Web interfaces such as cPanel and Plesk but they are quite buggy. I just needed a script to configure the base mail system for me and then I could go on customizing it.

Well, I've just installed iRedMain/Admin on my new server and it seems to work flawlessy out-of-box. I have to ask a couple of question though (in another thread).

1. Great customer support via forum? Installation, migration, integration.
   Like other open-source project, we should not ask too much. But the current can not be better.

Well, so far I am the only one lurking around at #iredmail on freenode; it would be really nice if others would join me there.

I wrote up some info in order to get going with all this IRC magic in case somebody is new to that whole shebang http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/mis … ith_pidgin

It seems that you (and your team) just focus to some Linux distro, especially RH family.

Yes. But iRedMail already supports RHEL/CentOS & Ubuntu/Debian

It's great that more users join this community, share mail server knowledge, and help others

I spent almost 2 weeks but still failed to have a postfix mail server run.
Then, I found iRedMail. iredMail provided everything I was looking for--virtual domains, virtual users,SSl, webmail, anti-spam, virus scan, quota... and thanks to the simplicity of the iRedmail, I was able to set up successfully a RHEL based mail server just by several click! With its rich online documentation, simple automation and realtime support, everybody can set up a full-featured mail server in no time at all! It is absolutely an easy configuration, zero maintenance solution.
My mail server has been running great over 1 year. Thanks again for this amazing program... Absolutely amazing.