[Gllug] Which IMAP for Debian?

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Mon Oct 14 09:54:28 UTC 2002


John Edwards wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:19:51AM +0100, Robin Smith wrote:
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>>I want to setup an IMAP based mailbox on my main Debian server.
>>Which one should I install?
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>>I will be accessing it locally with evolution and remotely with my
>>Zaurus.
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>>Any pitfalls?
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>>Robin
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>Hi
>I've used three of the main IMAP daemons, in order of complexity:
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>1) University of Washington (aka UW-IMAP IMAP2000). Very basic, 
>no shared folders, mail must be in mbox files in /var/spool/mail. 
>Simple install but no change in configuration is possible without 
>editing the source code and recompiling. Does not support IMAP over 
>SSL/TLS. Several past security problems.
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Can I just mention that I have been using UW IMAP with ssl for a couple 
of years and it works well.

It does not allow users to share folders; however it does do public folders.

Kind regards
Xander

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