Hello all, As i mentioned in a previous email, we are planning to move to courier for IMAP/POP for our 70,000+ mailboxes. We are an ISP and currently drive everything from a MySQL database. However, there are 3 issues with Courier that I can see so far:
1. Maildir forces private mail folders to live under INBOX.folder - which means unless the client supports the namespace RFC's fully - user's have to manually set this up to avoid having their mail folders under their INBOX. Cyrus offers the altnamespace=yes option to get around this... Can Courier offer anything? (Unfortunately, we live in a Microsoft dominated world on the client-side - and as an ISP I'm sure you can understand we want to avoid as few setup steps as possible to get IMAP up-and-running for an end-user.) 2. Sieve rules. We are using IMP/Horde as our webmail and would love to get server-side mail filters going. Unfortunately there is no 'maildrop' option. I also like Sieve since it's a widely used RFC. Is there any Sieve functionality in Courier. If not can anybody suggest how we might do Sieve with Courier (i.e. using Sieve rules on the MTA perhaps?) 3. Auto creation of mailboxes. Again, as an ISP we drive everything from a real-time replicated MySQL database. Of course we don't create 70,000 user accounts on a server. Does Courier offer a feature that allows automatic creation of a mailbox the first time a user authenticates? I can get Exim to create a Maildir when the user first gets a mail, but can't see such an option in Courier. As you can imagine when a user signs-up with the ISP - one of the first steps is to setup their email. Of course they won't have any email yet, so we'd like the first login to create the mailbox for them and avoid any nasty error messages popping up in the client. I see such a patch exists at http://www.commedia.it/ccontavalli/courier/doc/courier/courier.html - but I'm always wary of using patches and prefer to stay with stable code. Has anybody used this patch in a production env? Can anybody think of a better work-around? Cheers, Ray ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
