On Thursday 10 May 2007, Joachim Schrod wrote: > Sandy Drobic wrote: > > If someone is starting fresh it might be worth a thought to think about > > alternatives like Courier Imap. > > A friend of mine, who does a lot more with imapd than I do, also > recomended UW imapd http://www.washington.edu/imap/ > He said that Courier has issues with IMAP protocol conformance; > though I don't remember which ones. > > He gave me the following link with a server comparison: > http://www.melnikov.ca/mel/devel/ServerReference.html
From which you can see that Cyrus is no slouch especially in the number of extensions supported, and authentication methods. In its defense, Cyrus is rock solid, embedded and turned on in SLES by default and easily set up in OpenSuse. I've used it with 10.2 serving to both windows and linux clients and found it quite robust. It has an automatic backup capability, and I've never known it to lose any mails. I did not find it difficult to set up the second time. ;-) I've also heard good reports on Dovecote. Client support for all of these is more of an issue. Especially if you want to use sieve scripts for server side sorting, dynamic folder creation, etc. Not all clients have sieve script management built in, and not all allow client side folder management, or public folders, etc. Kmail is pretty good in this respect but not perfect. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
