You've all convinced me -- I'll try it out on UW imapd. In fact I've already downloaded and built it. One more newbie question -- I would like to try out the new mix mailbox format; I see the document describing it (mixfmt.txt) but nothing telling me how to configure and/or build so that it is used as the default. Can you give me a pointer?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Crispin Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:10 PM To: Horton, Dave Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Imap-uw] Don't want a unix user per account - is there an alternate security model Given your description as a voice mail back end, just about any IMAP server is suitable. UW imapd would be quite a bit easier to set up than Cyrus. Nothing prevents you from moving to Cyrus in the future if that turns out to be the goal. UW imapd even comes with a nice tool, mailutil, which assists in the process; thus making UW imapd a good "first server" even for those sites which ultimately will run on other sites. I would suggest giving serious consideration to a mailbox format other than the traditional UNIX mailbox format which is UW imapd's default. The bleeding edge would be to use the new mix format; however for your purposes the more tried-and-true mbx (not mbox!) format would be alright. Run it on a Linux system, not commercial UNIX (that is, not Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.). Then you don't have to worry about the performance problems with large password files that some commercial UNIX systems have. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
