On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 09:38, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > Hi all > > I've been running a Postfix server at home for a while now quite > successfully, however I use Evolution to pull my mail directly out of my > mbox. I'd love to add IMAP functionality to my server, but I'm not quite > sure where to start. RPMDrake lists three imap servers availible, Courier, > Binc and Cyrus. Which is the easiest to set up? Are there any gotchas I > should know before I try this?
Word from the wise (or at least the "just been there")... mailutils-imap4d is a festering crock that doesn't understand the concept of locks, and quite happily munted my mbox file. I've now got exim as MTA, courier-imapd, and squirrelmail for webmail access. I don't allow pop3, but bolting in courier-pop3 shouldn't be hard. The best thing to do is to use maildir format rather than mbox. Mbox uses one long text file with "from [EMAIL PROTECTED]" as a delimiter, whereas maildir makes ~/Maildir/ and stores each individual mail and folder as files and directories. Much cooler and far more reliable.
