On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 13:33, R. Scott Belford wrote: > Like many of us, I have been enjoying reasonably spam free, sorted, and > web-accessible mail via > exim/fetchmail/procmail/spamassasin/imap/squirrelmail. It has been a > delight. Not content with good enough, I have been toying with the idea of > using courier-imap instead of uw-imap. Courier uses the maildir format > apparently developed by DJB for qmail, and Uw-imap uses the standard mbox > format. The way I understand it, maildir can be much less processor > intensive for large or multiple mailboxes. >
I don't have anything intelligent to say about Maildir as I have very little experience there, but I personally moved from uw-imap to dovecot for my IMAP server and never looked back. dovecot is an ultra fast and secure (think vsftpd of mail) POP3/IMAP4 server that handles either mbox or Maildir. I personally use it with mbox because that's what I had been using with my earlier uw-imap, but dovecot suddenly makes it MUCH faster and very reliable. http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ dovecot is in Debian and Red Hat Rawhide currently. Warren