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Courier - Integrated mail/groupware server

The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. It provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. Courier now implements basic web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated in the webmail module.

Courier implements SMTP extensions for mailing list management and spam filtering. Courier can function as an intermediate mail relay, relaying mail between an internal LAN and the Internet, or perform final delivery to mailboxes. Courier uses maildirs as its native mail storage format, but it can also deliver mail to legacy mailbox files as well. Courier's configuration is set by plain text files and Perl scripts. Most of Courier's configuration can now be adjusted from a web browser, using Courier's web-based administration module.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.courier-mta.org/
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/courier/courier-0.45.tar.bz2
Source informationhttp://www.courier-mta.org/download.php
Version 0.45 (stable) released on 2004-03-08
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User INSTALL guide included and available in HTML format from http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html; User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html; User manpages available in HTML format from http://www.courier-mta.org/
Support contacts

Help List<mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Developer List<mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Bug List<mrsam@courier-mta.com>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.courier.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/courier http://www.courier-mta.org/status.html
Interfacesdaemon
Source languagesC, C++, Perl
Build prerequisitesC++ compiler (*not* gcc 3.0), make, Perl 5, expect, either GDBM *or* Berkeley DB library
Weak prerequisitesOpenSSL (for support for SSL/TLS), OpenLDAP (support for LDAP directories), MySQL/PostgreSQL development libraries (support for MySQL/PostgreSQL authentication), mgetty+sendfax/groff *or* troff (not tested)/ghostscript/NetPBM (all of these for sending email messages via fax

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-08-02
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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