Mail-in-a-Box is a

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program for

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hosting developed by

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. The software's goal is to enable any user to turn a cloud system into a mail server in few hours. The tool enables developers to host mail for multiple users and multiple

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s. The default configuration provides a

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detection system, monitoring, reporting and backup mechanisms. It can also set up and automatically renew a

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, as well as configuring the detailed

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configurations needed to ensure that a mail server's

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is trusted by other servers, and less likely to be blacklisted. Its support for

IMAP In computing, the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection. IMAP is defined by . IMAP was designed with the goal of per ...

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facilitates synchronizing across devices. First developed in 2013 by Tauberer, the tool is written in

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. The project supports Ubuntu LTS.

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