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

[Xander D Harkness]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:11:53PM +0100, Stephen Harker 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.
> Steve

I have been running UW IMAP for about four years, maybe longer and have found
it very reliable.  I have a number of sites using it, one of about 30 or 40
people, another with 200+ and another with 2000+. The servers have a 500Mb
ram and a moderate processor (Athlon 700 or something)

I have had no problems with mail corruption or other difficulty.  Any bug
fixes I normally get done on the same day they are out.

If you are worried about security you could use xinetd to restrict the
services to specific IPs as well as firewalling.

Kind regards
Xander

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