On Dec 31, 2019, at 08:30, Roderick <hru...@gmail.com> wrote: > As said, I had UW imap serving system user mailboxes, and now > cyrus imap serving virtual users. You have to decide. With > dovecot I have no other experience than compiling it. > > I think, I would preffer now UW Imap, because I have only few and trusted > users, and because it is very simple, no much configuration and > mantainance needed: it just publishes the mailboxes with imap, > accessed with the system user/password.
So I’ve been running Dovecot for I don’t know how long (but started on Solaris, so at least that long ago). I used to have LDAP running, but decided it was overkill since I’m the only one who logs into the boxes, the other three people only read email. Dovecot can seem complex, but it’s not at all. It pretty much works out of the box, with very few changes necessary (and works well with Lets Encrypt certs as well). My first OpenBSD configuration was based on https://frozen-geek.net/openbsd-email-server-1/ My next will be based on https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-with-opensmtpd-dovecot-and-rspamd/, because I want to used rspamd instead of all the stuff loaded in the first (for some reason, one of the daemons doesn’t start on boot — it does if I start it manually. Frankly, my machine never reboots, so I keep forgetting even which one it is that doesn’t start.). I got a little tripped up doing the 6.4 migration, so I have some catching up to do. Looking at https://www.tumfatig.net/20150620/opensmtpd-and-dovecot-on-openbsd-5-7/, it’s a little too copy-pasta for my taste. But even so, it doesn’t configure dovecot for non-system users, so it’s unclear how virtual users were set up with Dovecot. Anyway, having run UW imap, cyrus, and dovecot — I run dovecot. I also use sdbox, BTW, which I believe no one but ancient MH people use. My non-default configs are pretty much limited to per-host configuration (like hostname), sieve and SSL. I think the biggest hurdle was getting used to LMTP. Sean
