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?  ;-) ;-) ;-)

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