As the days and months go by more and more coverage is being given to the new
communication kids on the block , tools such as twitter , yammer , and more recently google wave. There has become talk of e-mail as a communication tool eventually no longer leading as the forefront of modern day communication.

However from what we can see here in dediserve , that is not, going to be for a considerable amount of time and with approx. 2.25 Billion emails currently being sent out every day , that’s an enormous mindset that looks unlikely to change within the next ten years.

With e-mail being such a vitally important communication tool for both our personal and business lives, it’s availability is paramount, email downtime now costs money, due to missed meetings or sales potentials, where another company who was able to respond straight away has closed the deal.

With dediserves , Virtualmin (centos) application stack you can move all your e-mail onto it’s own virtual private server , availing of are high end, high availablity servers connected via fiber channel to our SAN storage arrays. We also offer full daily/weekly and monthly back-ups ensuring you’ll never lose any data. Not to mention the improved speed of your mail as you no longer need to share resources with the whole server dedicated to just your email and all for only €20 per month

Once your server is up and running , usually within five minutes , you can start setting up your email accounts via the virtualmin control panel straight away. We also have the following e-mail software pre-installed depending on your own personal preference.

Dovecot

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It’s fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.
Some of the most notable features of Dovecot include:

• Dovecot is among the highest performing IMAP servers while still supporting the standard mbox and Maildir formats. The mailboxes are transparently indexed, which gives Dovecot its good performance while still providing full compatibility with existing mailbox handling tools.
• Dovecot is standards compliant. Dovecot v1.1 passes all IMAP server standard compliancy tests while most other servers fail many of them.
• Dovecot’s indexes are self-optimizing. They contain exactly what the user’s client commonly needs, no more and no less.
• Dovecot is self-healing. It tries to fix most of the problems it notices by itself, such as broken index files. The problems are however logged so the administrator can later try to figure out what caused them.
• Dovecot’s design and implementation is highly focused on security. Rather than taking the traditional road of just fixing vulnerabilities whenever someone happens to report them, I offer 1000 EUR of my own money to the first person to find a security hole from Dovecot.

For a complete features list see – http://www.dovecot.org/

Postfix

Postfix is a free and open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email. It is intended as a fast, easy-to-administer, and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail MTA.
Postfix is the default MTA for a number of Unix(-like) operating systems such as GNU/Linux.
It is released under the IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software licence.
Formerly known as VMailer and IBM Secure Mailer, it was originally written by Wietse Venema during a stay at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and continues to be actively developed today. Postfix was first released in mid-1999.

Sendmail

Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and -delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet.
A descendant of the delivermail program written by Eric Allman, Sendmail is a well-known project of the free and open source software and Unix communities, and has spread both as free software and proprietary software.

Also included with virtualmin included  spamassasin and BIND dns server

Tags: Dovecot, Internet Message Access Protocol, Mail transfer agent, Open Source, Postfix, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

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