On Monday 10 February 2003 10:11 am, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> David Walser wrote:
> >> Forgive my ignorance but what is SIEVE?
> >
> > It's a scripting thing, you can do a lot of things with it, but it's
> > main use is server-side filtering of e-mails. Currently with any other
> > IMAP server, say you have some folders, and you want to filter some
> > mails into the different folders. You do your filter in Mozilla Mail,
> > and then don't get run when you use SquirrelMail (webmail), or vice
> > versa. SIEVE does all the filtering when the messages are delivered on
> > the server (rather than when you check your mail), so it's consistent
> > across all IMAP clients, and also there are nice GUI and web-based tools
> > for configuring SIEVE filters.
>
> Sieve isn't the only strength of cyrus-imapd. You can have shared
> folders (courier cand do that too but it's a kludge) and ACLs on all
> folders (you can give limited or complete access to your own folders to
> other users, and AFAIK courier cannot do that).
> Cyrus-imapd is also fast, since it's message store (or better, the
> metadata database) is optimized for imap access, while a maildir storage
> isn't.
Well there are other advantages to using maildir. If cuyrus can not handle
maildir type directories then I myself am not interested. It's proven ot be
faster in everything but searching. I however dont really care about the
speed. It's simply a superior way to store files. Kmail is proof of that.
With mbox style files kmail on my system was maxing out at about 100,000
email's or so. Now that it is using maildir type folders I can have way
beyond that ammount of email stored.
>
> Bye
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