UW-IMAPD (was Re: [Gllug] Servers and other irritations...)

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:31:03PM +0100, Thom May wrote:
> Pretty much everything from UW is soul-destroyingly evil.
> That said, it's not that bad. compared to, say, Exchange. Or Netscape
> Messaging Server.
> Courier or Cyrus are generally much better choices for IMAP servers.

Depends on the situation.  They're both more powerful but also more
complex, Cyrus especially so.  UW-Imap is simple, simply drops into
place on a standard *nix system and can work with a wide variety of
mailbox formats.  The developer, Mark Crispin, invented the IMAP
protocol and is still the major maintainer of it, so it's not that
UW-Imap is designed by someone clueless, just a bit eccentric.

-- 
Bruce

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