Saké Mail requires the same prerequisite components as the Saké framework. Saké Mail also must have access to a mail server that supports either POP3 or IMAP access, and a mail transport agent that supports SMTP access. Any standards-compliant server will work fine, and we have not yet found a server with actual incompatibility problems. Different servers and server plug-ins offer different types of features to different markets though, and some servers may work better with Saké Mail than others.

We very strongly recommend using an IMAP server, preferably one with full IMAP folder support, such as Cyrus (for Unix servers) or iMail (for Windows servers). Using IMAP offloads the responsibility of managing mail folders to the mail server, rather than depending on Saké Mail to do it. Saké Mail focuses its attention on quickly and efficiently providing a user interface to web users, and it not as well-suited to folder management as a well-written IMAP server. We recommend using POP3 or "POP3 with local folders" modes only for special cases where setting up an IMAP server is not possible.

If you are a mail server vendor and you would like us to list your product on this page, please contact us with information on how we can connect to your server. Please provide the name of your server, which protocols (POP3, IMAP and/or SMTP) that you would like us to test, the OS that the server is running under, the hardware that the server is supported by, a test account user name and password that we can use to log in to your server, and an email address corresponding to the test account so that we can send test messages. We will be more than happy to list your server once we verify compatibility.

If you are not a mail server vendor, but you have a particular mail server installed at your site that is not on our list of tested configurations, please let us know. If you provide us with the information mentioned above, we will be happy to verify compatibility for you, or you can use our demo distribution to try it for yourself.

The following system configurations have been verified compatible with Saké Mail:

Tested Configurations
Platform	Mail Server	Retrieval	Transport
Linux, Windows 2000	sendmail		SMTP
Transport only. To retrieve mail when using sendmail you must also install a POP3 or IMAP server, such as Cyrus.
Windows NT Server, Windows 2000	Ipswitch iMail	POP3, IMAP	SMTP
iMail is a bit strange at first, but it is very easily installed and configured, and it seems to be very stable and robust. The single most impressive feature of iMail is the flawless and extremely fast IMAP support. We very strongly recommend using iMail with IMAP access for Saké Mail if you are going to be using an NT server.
Linux	Cyrus	POP3, IMAP
Cyrus has some very strange IMAP folder management rules. It will only allow the creation of folders named "INBOX.something", not simply "something". To accommodate this peculiar perversion, Saké Mail supports folder prefixes. Simply set your folder prefix to "INBOX." when dealing with Cyrus servers.
Windows NT Server	Microsoft Exchange	POP3, IMAP	SMTP
The standard-issue Microsoft mail server. Functions perfectly, but not recommended for performance reasons, see below.
Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000	UW IMAP Server	IMAP
The original IMAP server, from the University of Washington. This is a very nice server that is very stable and has been tested and refined for years. Highly recommended.
Linux	Mark Crispin IMAP daemon (supplied with RedHat Linux as "imapd")	POP3, IMAP
This module is distributed with RedHat Linux via an RPM as "imapd", and is apparently a stripped-down version of the UW IMAP server. (If this information is not correct, please let us know, we are still trying to establish the genealogy of this server.) Provides effective POP3 and IMAP access to simple sendmail installations.

The following system configurations might technically work, but might not really be very well suited for using with Saké Mail for various reasons: