Download hMailServer from here: http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=background_download_file&downloadid=207.
- In setup, select internal db engine.
- Now you have a service called hMailServer and an administration program on the Windows start menu (hMailServer Administrator).
- Open hMailServer Administrator program.
- Click on "Domains" and then "add domain".
- At "domain name" put a fake domain to test. Use "localhost.com" (without the quotes): hMailServer requires a fully qualified domain, so, we cannot use @localhost.
- Make sure to add your domain (localhost.com) to hosts file: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
- Expand Settings > Protocols > SMTP -> Delivery of e-mail
- At "Host name" put "localhost" (without the quotes).
- Check if TCP Port is 25.
- Go to "Domains", click on the created domain, and then click on "accounts", then "add account".
- At "address", create your account name, here I use "rael" (without the quotes), and put a password.
- Change "Administration level" to "Server".
- Enabling this, you can use any email address ending with you fake domain. Example: here, my unique account is [email protected]. But while testing systems, I can use any address like [email protected], [email protected], etc, because all will be redirected to [email protected]
- Open "Domains", click on your domain, open Advanced tab, fill field "catch-all address" with account created on previous step.
- At Windows, you can use Windows Live Email (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-other-programs?T1=t2).
- Of course, you can use any email client.
- While configuring
- Incoming Server is POP3, and the username is the full email address (like [email protected]), and the password is raw text (no encrypt).
- POP3 and SMTP server are "localhost" (without the quotes).
- Outgoing server do not require authentication.
- Don't use the email client and the hMailServer Administration application at the same time!
hello, am hapi for the tutorial, helped me alot. configured local email server and its working but cliet mail works only when openedfrom the computer running hmailserver. when i try to configure outlook in another pc within my LAN, it cant go through. i am on a LAN with computers connected to a router with internet available. i dont want to access my mail server from outside the lan, just within the lan, what should i do sir?