On Friday 09 February 2007 13.45.32 Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2007 13:10:04 Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote: > > For me (OpenSUSE 10.2 on the desktop now...) it is however very rare to > > see this (but it has happended). But I have the Cyrus notify daemon that > > will tell Kmail that new mails have arrived. Don't know if Courier has > > one. If so... Try to enable it. Maybe this is the factor that makes this > > issue very rare for me. > > Both respondants to my question reporting a similar problem are using the > cyrus imap server. Maybe I should change from using the courier server. Are > there any benefits in using the cyrus one over using the courier one? > Per-Olov mentioned the notification feature. Anything else that would > warrant a switch? > > I am using maildir folders, which are populated by procmail. It is possible > that cyrus is compatible with these? That is, can I simply replace courier > with cyrus? Of course, the maildir folder is huge and not backed up (I > know!!!). So I guess I can't really try until I sort that, switch or no > switch... > > -- > Roger Oberholtzer > OPQ Systems AB
NO. maildir !=maildir+ The rest of my answer is maybe a little bit out of topic ;-) But.... Cyrus uses a sealed mail store that uses maildir+ and indexed mailspools. This gives a huge performance boost. Cyrus also makes procmail not needed as it supports sieve server side sorting directly. Procmails receive, analyze and then maybe reject is not a preferred solution. Courier is a good server, but Cyrus is way ahead of Courier with a better architecture and features (MY opinion). But one benefit I can come up with is that Courier seems to work seamless and perfect over NFS which is not the case with Cyrus. This as maildir+ with indexed mailspool is not NFS safe. I have helped a couple of ISP:s. One of them uses Courier for the NFS mounting of the message store. That implementation works really perfect. So there is definetly nothing wrong with Courier even though I say Cyrus is the no 1 choice. *IF* you would like to change and sees problem.. This can be used with success... Start by copying just one mailbox as a test... http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html Regards /Per-Olov -- GPG keyID: 4DB283CE GPG fingerprint: 45E8 3D0E DE05 B714 D549 45BC CFB4 BBE9 4DB2 83CE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
