The Best Email Server

[thekevin07]

Hey guys

I'm not sure where this thread goes but anyways does anyone know the best email server to use that will mainly be used for sending email through php and im using windows 2000.

I am currently using http://freedns.afraid.org for dns hosting and i purchased my domain at godaddy.com.

What im looking for in a email server is really easy to setup, compatible with windows 2000 and wont make the emails i send through php marked as spam or blocked all together.

Any suggestions as to how i can setup mail with my domain through http://freedns.afraid.org would also be greatly appreciated.

free/open source solutions would be best.

Thanks

[ghell]

If you are using IIS as your webserver (IIS5.0 will be on win2k) it may have an SMTP server built into it. (IIS6 on WS2k3 does, but I don't know about win2k especially when its not a server edition)

If you are using apache or some other webserver, I don't know what smtp servers are available. Have you tried searching on sourceforge?

Also, the SMTP server probably wont cause mail to automatically get marked as junk, but several large ISPs won't accept mail from a host on a dynamic IP. If you have a static IP then you don't have to worry about that though.