m�ndagen den 27 januari 2003 12.48 skrev Buchan Milne: > Oden Eriksson wrote: > > Buchan Milne writes: > >> Oden Eriksson wrote: > >>> Hi list. > >>> I've used courier-imap since 0.20 or something but since I found this > >>> new(?) imap server a while back it got me curious. Now. I'm a > >>> contributer and packager for Mandrake Linux, and I know for a fact we > >>> are looking for a uw-imap drop-in replacement. courier-imap has been > >>> in contribs for a while now but haven't made it into the maintree, I > >>> guess because it's so strange... > >> > >> What's strange about courier? I have one production server running UW, > >> which convinced me never to use it in production again, so my other > >> servers run courier. > >> The big issue is migrating mail which is in mbox files. That's why my > >> first prodcution mail server *still* runs UW. And unfortunately that > >> affects all current Maildir server. Would be nice if there were a > >> mbox2maildir migration IMAP server ;-). > > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mbox2maildir&btnG= > >Goo gle+Search > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapmigration > > Sure, there is also imapcopy > (http://www.jplanglois.com/products/imapcp/) and mb2md > (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/), but one can't just > dump uw while people have mail servers running it ...
Yes I see, this needs to be done methodical and carefully. Are there many users? Downtime is unaceptable? > I must still get around to testing these, and then migrate ... > > And we don't like disturbing the users too much, mail server upgrade is > dependant on our recently completed file server migration ... the kind > of thigns you don't want to do simultaneously! He he he, no it would be to much to keep track of. > >> Also, the KDE kolab project uses cyrus ... so do we want 4 IMAP servers > >> in the distro? > > > > Then we won't see either kolab or cyrus-imap in mandrake because of the > > cyrus-imap license? > > According to FM it's OSI-approved, and from reading it, it seems almost > identical (except for paragraph 4 which seems to reiterate 1 and 2 but > for some distribution besides source or binary?) to the modified > GPL-compatible BSD: > > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/license.html > > Of course Mandrake uses the GPL-incompatibly-licensed postfix (IBM > public license) as default MTA ;-) I don't know about the license model, but I vaugly recall a discussion on this list some time ago that it would not make it. Well..., back on topic. I would like people to test this new server and report to me their experience. It's very promising. I will test it in production myself this week. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com
