On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Payal Rathod wrote: >On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:25:02AM +0200, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >> Courier-IMAP has a lower memory footprint than Binc IMAP. But both >> footprints are low. >Any particular reason other that "setting up is easy" that I would want >to use bincimap? I always love trying new things.
Today, Binc IMAP has less features than Courier-IMAP. This is because the 1.2 branch is a plain IMAP server with no extensions. The goal of 1.2 has been to provide a rock solid IMAP server that has the same performance as its competitors, provided that no indexing is used. Also there is no bloat in the server, so it's easier to maintain and extend than all the others. The effective line count of Binc IMAP is about 13000 lines, while Courier-IMAP (150k), uw-imap (250k) and Dovecot(80k) well, the figures should be quite self-documenting. Binc IMAP 1.2 provides the foundation for an excellent IMAP server. No other servers have this solid foundation. In 1.3, which is in the early development stages, the extensions are introduced. That means we'll get server-side sorting, custom flags, indexing and all of the stuff that is required for an enterprise-class IMAP server. But it will still have the rock solid foundation, and still be easy to maintain and extend. We focus on design, ease of use, modularity, symbiosis with other unix tools. Binc IMAP has a slower development cycle than other servers because of the release policy; a stable release gets no new features; only bug fixes, packaging and documentation updates. This is a good thing, but it also means that today's Binc IMAP doesn't have as many features as other servers. But I don't really envy Dovecot's corrupted indexes and new-grammar-between-release-candidates thing either. ;-) What good is an IMAP server with support for mbox and indexing, if mbox support is mostly broken, and indexing is mostly broken? >> The client should be able to compensate for this. We use the latest >> Squirrelmail and don't see any performance problems. But the system we're >> running doesn't have many users. >How about telling me, maybe offlist, how to get squirrelmail with >bincimap ... I mean the "." and "/" thing. One start is to run the configure script, enter Folder Settings and change the path to the default folders to use slashes instead of dashes. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
