-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 11. Februar 2003 19:59 schrieb Oden Eriksson: > tisdagen den 11 februari 2003 07.46 skrev Martin Fahrendorf: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003 20:21 schrieb Oden Eriksson: > > > måndagen den 10 februari 2003 20.00 skrev Luca Olivetti: > > > > David Walser wrote: > > > > > From what I read, it looks like Cyrus does use Maildirs, it just > > > > > doesn't store them in /home/$user > > > > > > > > No it doesn't, it has its own message store (one file per message and > > > > the metadata is stored in various databases). > > > > The phisical format of the mailstore doesn't matter though, you're > > > > supposed to access it only through imap. > > > > > > Hmmm, this is sounding more and more like MS exchange, as easy to mess > > > up... > > > > Not realy. The database only holds redundant information of the > > mailheader. The E-Mail ist stored almost unchanged as plain text file > > (one mail in one file - similar to maildir). the loss of mail is nealy > > impossible (assuming a valid backup is availible). The database can > > simple be rebuild by a command. Only the acl and the quota stuff can get > > lost on a heavy database damage. > > Ok, thanks. > > However I won't touch this software as I'm happy with bincimap and > courier-imap.
Yes, of course courier is a great pice of software. But if you ever need multiple shared folder in your imap system (like in our firma, where every project has its own folder), there is no alternative to cyrus afaik. Martin - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------ H E L I X Gesellschaft für Software & Engineering mbH - ------------------------------------------------------------ Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 - ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.helix-gmbh.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+SiloBG198cnayKQRAqY1AJ0Vsw/0Slk+XhbpXU2rcaUyQZQaDQCfdTAF zGPNhza58LMDfMfmCa+Q8T0= =GQtf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
