Setup XMail Server on Windows

Please refer to the link http://www.halfdone.com/Articles/XMailInstall/ for more details on this.

Here are the simplified steps to configure the XMail Server’s on Windows Machine

1. Download the XMail Server from http://www.xmailserver.org     

2. Extract this to a directory say C:\xmail-1.27

3. Copy the exe’s and dll’s to C:\xmail-1.27\MailRoot\bin directory

4. Create the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\XMAIL. Create the Sting (REG_SZ) values called MAIL_ROOT and MAIL_CMD_LINE. For the value of MAIL_ROOT put in the "MailRoot folder" location like C:\xmail-1.27\MailRoot. For MAIL_CMD_LINE you can leave it blank or put in "-Pl -Sl -Ql -Fl -Cl -Ll"

5. Here we are using the default domain , that is xmailserver.test , so no need to modify the configuration files.

6. Run xmcrypt.exe to create an encoded password. It's used in the format of XMCRYPT.EXE <password>.

xmcrypt.exe welcome1

1100161115041616120a1701

7. Open the file C:\xmail-1.27\MailRoot\ctrlaccounts.tab and enter the following values "admin" <tab>   "120009060a080054"

8.  User and alias creation

Check the domain

ctrlclnt -s localhost -u admin -p welcome1 domainlist "xmailserver.test"

Create two domain users

ctrlclnt -s localhost -u admin -p welcome1 useradd "xmailserver.test" test1 welcome1 U
ctrlclnt -s localhost -u admin -p welcome1 useradd "xmailserver.test" test2 welcome1 U

Check the users

ctrlclnt -s localhost -u admin -p welcome1 userlist "xmailserver.test"

Create aliases for these two users

ctrlclnt -s localhost -u admin -p welcome1  aliasadd  "xmailserver.test" test1 ravi1
ctrlclnt -s localhost -u admin -p welcome1  aliasadd  "xmailserver.test" test2 ravi2

Check the aliases for these users

ctrlclnt -s localhost -u admin -p welcome1 aliaslist

9. Set up the POP3 email server and SMTP Outgoing server from Thunderbird. For the POP3 accounts set the SMTP Server as the localhost:25