On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:49:39 -0400 (EDT) Dave Lugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, OpenMacNews wrote: > > > > curious -- do you consider the dovecot community to be "large/stable > > enough" > > ... i.e., NOT subject to single-developer-may-evaporate-at-any-moment > > syndrome? > > > > Honestly, I don't know. However, the codebase is relatively small, > open-sourced, and dovecot has been around for longer than 6 months, > (an eternity in 'net time) so it's not too bad ;) > > I suppose a lot depends on your confort level. Larger sites that > may have more resources for maintaining dovecot themselves are likely > to be in the best shape in case. > There is primarily one developer, Timo, and a few of us who contribute patches. Timo seems to be going through bursts of Dovecot activity recently, which means you may not hear from him for a week, then suddenly all Dovecot queries get answered on the list and a new 1.0-testXX version comes out! He's also heavily involved with another project (irssi2), I think. I don't think he's likely to disappear, though, as he's been actively developing Dovecot for years, and has mentioned integrating irssi2 with it. >From my own point of view, I find it fairly easy to add minor features and fix small issues with IMAP, but I get lost when trying to understand the caching/indexing code (which is what makes Dovecot perform so well!). We've decided to switch to Dovecot-1.0-stable this summer as we can make the change from UW-IMAP completely transparent to the user (and switch back as easily!). On the other hand, Cyrus is probably a more fully-featured and stable/supported product if you can manage the migration (Cambridge Uni did this recently, there's an excellent paper on it at http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/ ) Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
