Documentation

Download and installation

Please download the latest version of quickSMTP which you will receive as a self-installing executable file that you need to start on your Windows machine. Installation is fully automatic and will take less than a minute. If you do not have the required .NET framework v4.5, it will be downloaded and installed for you automatically.

Basic requirements

Your machine should match the following basic requirements:

Windows 7 or newer (recommended, XP/Vista are also fine)
Microsoft .NET framework v4.5 or newer
20MB of disk space for the program and its files
Additional disk space depending on the volume of emails

Configuration of your server

Please check the respective section for description of the configuration options:

General settings

SMTP server configuration

POP3 server configuration

Secuirty settings

More topics

How quickSMTP stores local messages.

Latest Version: 0.3

Important bugfix! There was a bug in version 0.2 that would cause quickSMTP to consume a lot of resources when a client connects to SSL POP3 or SMTP and does not comply with the protocol commands. We recommend you to upgrade

Latest Version: 0.2

Version 0.2 optimizes existing functionality, fixes some bugs and introduces a few new features. Upgrade is highly recommended! 

Version: 0.1

This version is a major upgrade and is not compatible with the previous versions. You need to manually uninstall any previous version before installation!

  • SQLite is being used as back-end storage which means that all .ini files are no longer needed.
  • SSL encrypted POP3 and SMTP protocols are available.
  • New intrusion prevention system that allows you to block nodes who are probing brute force users.
  • Monitoring interface and program that allow you to connect to and monitor your quickSMTP.
  • Statistics with various graphs that can give you a good overview of the operation of your mail server.
  • Quotas for mail storage introduced on per account level.
  • Retention period for local storage of emails.
  • Remote blocking rules have been extended to include expiration time should you need to impose time limited bans.

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