Recommend a Free Mail Server (Windows)

Hi,
Can somebody recommend a free mail server that I can use when running demo's / POC's / Training etc from my local machine for use with Delivers.
There seems to be a few out there - I'd be interested if anybody can advise there experience with any of them?
Thanks
Alastair
BTW Im running Windows 7 64bit
Edited by: Alastair_PeakIndicators on 20-Jan-2010 07:17

But what you want to do is not trivial to configure. By "Mail server" for Delivers people typically mean an SMTP server which is basically a relay server. But for the relay server to work it needs to be able to relay messages to the internet so when you send an email to an external domain it can be routed. It you don't want web access then your SMTP server won't be able to relay any messages so it will unusable for your demo. What you probably need is to configure a local domain in your SMTP server so that it relays messages to itself. Then you will need a POP3 server running to retrieve the message locally.
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