Axigen is a modular server running either as integrated service server or with certain services inhibited.
When using Axigen as main mail server, it is recommended to run all services provided by Axigen - Processing, SMTP Incoming, SMTP Outgoing, POP3, IMAP, WebMail, WebAdmin, CLI, Log, Report, FTP Backup - in order to take full benefit of functionalities offered by the server. By default, when installing mail services the following services will be running: SMTP, IMAP, POP3, WebMail and WebAdmin. SMTP stands for all Axigen SMTP services: SMTP Incoming, SMTP Outgoing and Processing.
Each Axigen service can be started / stopped / restarted separately providing you a flexible way to troubleshoot or to perform administrative tasks without completely stopping the server.