Olivier Girondel wrote:
I find this twist on this thread a little bizarre...in my (admittedly short) time installing and using courier-imap, I have found it to be straightforward to run, stable, and am pretty happy with it. I didn't have to sweat blood to get it to work, unlike several other sofware packages, both open and closed source.Matt Pavlovich wrote:Courier would be picked up by other developers. The code is GPL'd and there are enough people using it. I know I would step up and help maintain the project.
well, if one could afford forking the project, then there's nothing wrong.
but i personally have a bad experience about forking projects, and would do that at the VERY LAST resort.
There are valid questions to be answered about stability and such for some shops, but if it does what you want it to do, use it. If you have to migrate, you'll be able to. I don't think you get any more protection against this by running something like M$ Exchange -- they routinely break all kinds of stuff between versions, often catastrophically. In my experience developers in the open source community are much less likely to try and shove incompatible changes down your throat than corporations -- M$ can make an additional $10k off you for training if they break lots of stuff with a new version that you have to upgrade to because the new version of Lookout that comes with your new laptops doesn't work with the old mail server.
I for one would like to thank Sam for a fine piece of software -- it's certainly been good to me.
--tla
I don't see Sam making any bad decisions about feature sets. He sticks by the RFC's and even takes into account crappy clients whenever possible.yep. and the imap server allows users to _SEND_ mail.Case in point- The rework of the mail file naming to be more unique went
into effect once a real problem was identified.and still, there is no POP3-file-size encoded in the filename.
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