On Sat, 14 May 2005, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: >This is *really* ideal for me, because I get the results that IMAPdir >provides, while I'm really using plain old maildir++, which all my >applications support with no changes. Could this be an option in binc >for people who are using maildir++ depots?
Can you create subfolders of INBOX? :-) Is the result similar to setting the IMAP subfolder prefix to INBOX? >I'm really impressed by dovecot - the config file gives a lot of options >and is quite readable, and things are more reliable now regarding the >timeouts I was experiencing. >In bincimap's defense, bincimap is faster and fits into a djb-ish system >(daemontools, etc.) nicer. In general, if you never run the mbox code and don't use search indexing (corrupt indexes are the #1 most popular problem with Dovecot), you should be quite safe. Problem is, these are the two most popular and bug exposed features of Dovecot. Dovecot may be the Secure IMAP Server, but at least Binc IMAP is stable.. It's no fun grepping through the Dovecot mailing list for core dumps, aborts, corruption and segfaults. By all means, it's a great project, and lots of good effort has been put into its ~60000 lines of C code. Andy ;-) PS: And stay away from version 1; it's in its 70th (!) release candidate (the RC has been renamed "test version" now), and between these candidates we have segmentation faults, rewrites of the indexing engine and parsers, and a whole lot of other jumbo going on. Dovecot v1 can probably become a stable server at some point, but it isn't yet. -- 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."
