On Mar 26, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Benny Kjær Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2015, at 17:59, Kee Hinckley wrote: > > • I've had people recommend Zimbra and iRedmail. > I don't know iRedmail. In my experience, Zimbra does not have one of the best > IMAP servers available. It's also not one of the worst, but the worst are > also really really bad (Groupwise comes to mind…). IIRC, Zimbra is a fairly thin wrapper around postfix for the SMTP stuff and Dovecot for the IMAP stuff, plus some other bits that they added on. > • And obviously, I need a good IMAP server for MailMate to use. > Anything that uses Dovecot would be really good. Cyrus is also fine (used by > Fastmail). Panda scores well in this dated test, but I'm not sure it's > developed anymore :-( I’ve been doing Internet mail systems administration for over twenty years, and in that time I have found that postfix and dovecot are two of the most reliable programs in this space. That’s assuming that you configure them correctly, of course. ;) Now, these are CLI programs and do not have a friendly native GUI, nor do they have native integration with things like CalDAV, WebDAV, etc.... > Anything with an IMAP server implemented as an after-thought (Groupwise, > Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook 365, GMX, and many more) is very likely to be buggy > or primitive — or both. But they gots the pretty, pretty GUI thingies, right? I mean, that’s all you really need, right? ;-) ;-) ;-) -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>
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