On Fri, 31 May 2002 22:09:11 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > *sigh*, and it's not just Sam, it's the whole community. What is a good > implementation, is Cyrus better?
Among freeware servers: Cyrus is an excellent implementation. There are a couple of minor issues in Cyrus (as I recall something having to do with RENAME not being atomic) but nothing that affects people in real life. The only major interoperability issue involving Cyrus was fixed long ago. UW is also an excellent implementation (of course I'd say that!), and is the reference implementation. The book "Managing IMAP", by Dianna Mullet & Kevin Mullet, published by O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00012-X, contains an excellent comparison between UW and Cyrus. There is remarkably little overlap between the target communities of the two servers, so it's a good idea to read this book and determine which community you fall into. I prefer not to compare commercial servers, mostly because much of my experience with these have been in dealing with their bugs. I do not have sufficient knowledge of current status to make an intelligent (or fair!) comparison. I know that some servers are vastly improved from early versions. I recommend that if you go with a commercial server, you should pick a vendor that is an active participant in this forum.
