Hal Pomeranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 % > Is there anything special I need to know to move from POP to IMAP?

 % IMAP is generally more load on your mail server, since it tends to be
 % used in "always connected" mode, rather than intermittant mode with POP.
 % On the other hand, this only matters if you have a lot of people using
 % your mail server-- for a personal mail server it just doesn't matter.

 % > What is a good choice for an IMAP server?

 % The UWash IMAP server is easy to set up, but gets bad press for being
 % a performance pig (again, for a personal mail server, who cares?).
 % Cyrus requires your email spools to go into maildir format, rather than
 % the standard Unix mailbox file format, but people generally seem to 
 % like Cyrus a lot.  I use the UWash server on my networks internally, but
 % as always YMMV...

 We are using Cyrus on PEAK. And we have seen it perform better than
 UWash IMAP, which we used before. However, it has broken some 
 of our older tools like MUTT and MH.





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