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

[Jim Bailey]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:34:44PM +0100, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> 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.
>
Courier is IMHO quite simple and in most situation can blow the socks
off a UW IMAP server

http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/

That said you have the added difficulty of learning Maildir format
mailboxes and converting .procmailrc and .muttrc files over to the new
format, sed may be your friend here.

I don't know about UW but Courier also has virtual mailboxes meaning
fewer unix accounts on a box, a security plus I think and a virtual
quota system using something called Maildir++ but I haven't done much
with those at this point.

At present my mail setup is Postfix, Courier-ssl, maildrop filtering,
pop-before-smtp sender authentication.  It is slowly becoming reasonably
sophisticated.

Peace Jim

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