Is it possible, and is it advisable, to host a mail server on a Windows Azure VM role?

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Published on 2012-10-12T08:29:55Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 9:40 UTC
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I know this question has been asked on various forums before, and that all the answer were negative, but many of the answers are quite old, and with Azure developing so quickly it seems useful to ask it again.

Can we run a mail server (such as mailenable) on an Azure VM? And if not, why not?

I've seen one posting on the MS forums (here) that suggests the IP of the Azure machine would be blacklisted as a source of spam. Why would this be (as opposed to hosting a mailserver on a dedicated box)?

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