Need information on setting up Email for hosting.

Didn't know where to put this topic but I am wondering what is the best free e-mail client to download for my webserver? Just wanting to know cause with hosting I am going to be offering e-mail.

bluedragon -- I hope you won't get offended by this, but I'm going to take this as an opportunity to explain some things so that others may benefit here. SO please understand there is NOTHING in the remainder of this reply that is directed at you, but you gave the perfect opportunity to try to help clear things up for others.

First, please provide Informative subject lines. This is noted in our posting rules in the announcements board. This helps members and guests quickly identify the content of the post. In addition it helps the search engines. It should be noted that a post was made at OZZU regarding the sasser virus and was listed in Google within 2-3 days of the post and allowed 19,000 unique visitors in addition to our most ever number of members and guests online for that day. The original subject was Help. It is now, Need information on setting up Email for hosting.


In regards to where to put a subject, consider what it is you need and are asking. In most cases the content will define the proper board. For example in this case, it's obvious there is a webserver and hosting will be made available and an email solution is needed. That tells me hosting would be my choice , which is where you will now find this post. When in doubt post it in the most appropriate place you can think of. The mods here are adept at getting the subjects in the right place and will move it if necessary at no extra charge *lol. It should also be noted this is why we discourage multiple posting. Posting a subject in multiple boards because you are uncertain where it will go is non-productive, it just confuses members and guests and it gets confusing reading multiple crossposts.

Third, when you ask a question, attempt to provide the most specific detail possible in order to get a better and quicker solution to your problem. In this case, much more information is needed. The primary piece of information is details about the webserver itself and what operating system is being used. This will dictate what may be availble and supported in terms of an email client.

*steps off soapbox.

Again, bluedragon, we're glad to have you here as a regular member at OZZU. I thank you for allowing me the opportunity to assist other members and new folks who will become members to get better results from their posts.

Yeah sorry but I have never done this before and was looking for help so I'll just go to another forum that I use to go to and ask this.

I guess you didn't understand, that I posted my reply, because you're like only the 1000th person to make a post like this. Well, you will get help here, or at least you might have...but if you do go to your other board, please consider that to get a good answer you HAVE to provide the best information about your problem possible.


Even if you do provide specific detail sometimes it takes awhile to get answers. I speant 4 months trying to get an answer to one of my problems, and nobody here provided it, even though I asked and rehashed possible solutions multiple times.

In the end I discovered a workaround on my own vs. a solution, but it was the folks at OZZU that helped me get there.


That is why I made my reply as I did...not to tick you off . You did read my first paragraph didn't you?

Well all I wanted was someone to say a name of an e-mail cliet or pm me about a diff post that has this same thing.

Well...they can't until you tell us what kind of Webserver you are running. You may have stated so elsewhere, but anyone seeking to help you is not going to know whether you did or didn't? Don't worry, bluedragon....I respect your time with us and your problem...but this is also a problem that prevents many people from getting good solutions. I was trying to help you, primarily....get a good answer as well as others who will read this get good answers to their problems....


I do believe if you take a moment and add a few more specifics about what you are using and what you want to accomplish, you will get GOOD answers right here where we are discussing this. This is my point. In no way to embarrass you, although it appears that I have, and if so I'm sorry. My replies are entirely here at this point to educate. This is similar instruction to what I have received in the past by mods that have been around much longer than I have in other places unknown to OZZU

Ok here is what I have:

Fireserv as webserver along with apache installed running php, cgi/perl, and basic html.

*wink -- now there you go ... now we can watch the help roll in. *lol -- I do wish you the best of luck and will review your specs myself, although this is completely not my forte. If I find a way I can personally help though...I will.

In the meantime, best of luck.

I use NeoMail and haven't had any problems with it.
http://www.neocodesolutions.com/software/neomail/

Oh yeah and I've also used Horde http://www.horde.org/ which isnt too bad either.

Im gonna back musik up there. Both neomail and horde are great, although I'm more partial to Horde. Another one is SquirrelMail.

Yup, I'm more inclined to use Horde too... I really don't like Neo Mail, heh.

Squirrel Mail is also very good (probably the simplest, and pretty neat... easily skinnable, etc.)

Yes Horde is pretty easy too. Ive also used SquirrelMail and its good as well.

There are any number of email clients you can use it just depends on what features you want.

Yeah, you could try also hitting Google and searching for "PHP Mail Client" (without the quotes).

I dont know about hosting it, but when I used horde to check my mail one of my many sites I found that there was no sent box. I'm hoping it supports it and that the site restricted it. Whats email without knowing what I sent?