Looking for a decent IMAP home setup

GrimReaper

I'm now using my desktop pc and Macbook Pro about equally nowadays, however I currently have my desktop pc setup for my email (Outlook), fetching from POP3 from two sources. (gmail and my ISP email)

It has the following requirements:

* IMAP (obviously)
* Can fetch email from two POP3 servers
* Is free
* Is for Windows preferably
* Can limit its POP3 transfer speed, I don't want to be playing a game and suddenly see my ping go to hell. (for example setting it to a max transfer speed of 25KB/sec or something)

Normally i'd set something up under Linux but i'm not really wanting to expend the time and effort unless absolutely necessary.

Whenever I want to read my email when away from my pc I use remote desktop on my Macbook.

I have an old Pentium 3 machine that i'm thinking of using for this purpose, putting it in the basement, sticking a wireless nic in it and leaving it running.

I'm not looking for any big email server system that includes SMTP etc. Just something that can fetch from a couple of POP3 servers and that can serve the emails up via an IMAP server. That way I can access emails from Outlook on my desktop pc and Mail on my OS X machine.

Echo

Well, this sounds just like the kind of thing Linux is really great at. And it's not very hard to set the stuff up either; there should be plenty of howtos telling you what to do.

The setup I've used in the past:

fetchmail or getmail to get mail from POP3 servers and inject it into the local MTA.

Courier IMAP as the local MTA (mail transfer agent).

Web server of your choice, and then Squirrelmail as a web mail interface.

And then whatever email client you like to read it via IMAP.

bombardier

I looked into doing exactly this and there's pretty much no good free Windows solution. Linux = best free solution to this like Echo said.

GrimReaper

I have been looking for some and so far found a couple of windows ones.

Macallan Mail Server:

Good: Does everything but limit POP3 retrieval download speed
Bad: User interface is atrociously bad, cannot limit pop3 download speed

Mercury/32:

Good: Highly modular, very clean very nice user interface
Bad: Doesn't run as a windows service (this can be worked around) but a program, cannot limit pop3 download speed


The reason I am not particularly wanting to go linux at the moment is because it's essentially more maintenance. A couple of years ago I had the time to look after it, but nowadays I don't. (I did actually have my own email server, domain name setup a few years ago with postfix etc)

Echo

Maintenance? Eh, I just stick my linux boxes in a corner and leave them for years.

GrimReaper

Echo wrote: »

Maintenance? Eh, I just stick my linux boxes in a corner and leave them for years.

I'm security paranoid and slightly obsessive compulsive. Linux brings that out in me big time.

For example, I always build my own kernel configuring a high level of security I also build all internet server apps with a few extra security stuff added and i'll configure the config files for the absolute max security.