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

[Thom May]

* Stephen Harker (steve at pauken.co.uk) wrote :
> On Thursday 01 August 2002 16:10, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > * Matthew Kirkwood <matthew at hairy.beasts.org> [020801 00:36]:
> > > [0] Actually, imap in general terrifies me, and only
> > >     because of the number of poor unfortunate boxes I
> > >     have seen r00t3d through the WU imapd.
> >
> > Some years ago, my dial-up goot rooted through UW-IMAP. Being a dial up,
> > I hadn't been paying that much attention to security.....
> >
> > Mike.
> Is UW-IMAP well known for knackering systems? Should I be worried about using 
> it? I use it here at work for the company but there are only about 30 users 
> on it so it doesn't work that hard. This is not the first time someone has 
> mentioned it on this list in the past few months so there must be something 
> in it.

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.
-Thom

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