Overview of EMWAC Internet Mail Services
The EMWAC Internet Mail Services for Windows NT (known as "IMS") are a suite of
server programs which allow you to use Windows NT as a mail server
for Internet mail. With IMS, your Windows NT machine can receive messages from
Internet, put them in individual users' incoming mail boxes, accept outgoing
mail from users, and relay that mail to its destination anywhere on the Internet.
It supports mail aliases, and can also run (optionally moderated) mailing lists.
This version of the EMWAC Internet Mail Services is freeware.
(See the Copyright Notice.)
The current version indicates POP3S 0.87, SMTPDS 0.84, SMTPRS 0.82, IMS.CPL 0.81.
The detailed features and bug fixes are here since IMS
0.80.
The announcement of the EMWAC IMS 0.8x is available here.
The components of IMS are:
- SMTP Receiver (Windows NT Service)
- Listens for incoming mail, and stores it for processing
by the SMTP Delivery Agent.
- SMTP Delivery Agent (Windows NT Service)
- This is the core of IMS. It delivers mail addressed to local users into
their "incoming" mailbox, and sends other mail out onto the Internet. It uses
MX records in the DNS for routing mail. It also supports aliases and mailing lists.
- POP3 Server (Windows NT Service)
- This component gives local users the ability to download mail from their
incoming mailbox on Windows NT to their own computer, using POP3 mail clients such as
Netscape Navigator Version 2.0,
Pegasus, or
Eudora.
- IMAP Server (Windows NT Service)
- With IMAP, mail is stored
permanemtly on the Windows NT machine, and an IMAP client such as Pine is used to
access it. The user can organise her mail into hierarchical folders. Not
yet available.
- EMWAC IMS Control Panel Applet
- This applet allows you to configure the EMWAC Internet Mail Services.
