[Wylug-discuss] IMAP Server Recommendation

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:01, Rik Wade wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an IMAP server for use on Linux? I know there are
> several good ones available but would be interested to hear people's
> experiences.
>
> I am running Postfix with spamd and procmail for local delivery.

Courier works well as long as you are happy with Maildir storage.   I
have a few places with it installed, along with sqwebmail & maildrop
(sqwebmail is a web f/e - useful for getting at mail when you have no
trustable clietns around.  It also allows web editing of delivery
recipies used by maildrop - which is nice for relatively naive users).

Long time since I used cyrus - its a sealed system, and does lots of
things, but you cannot easily use an external filter like procmail with
it.  I think cyrus might be good for (say) a University or company wide
setup, and overkill for other things.  Also used to suffer from
licensing issues.

I hear good things said about dovecot
	http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/
I am intending to migrate one system to that and then hopefully the
rest.

RH are now refusing to carry wu-imap for a combination of licensing and
security reasons.  I don't understand why its taken them so long to
realise the latter factor.

	Nigel.

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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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