James Knott wrote:
Jim Flanagan wrote:
Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about
implementing IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which
IMAP daemon I should try to implement? So far I have looked at the
possibility of Courier.
TIA for any advice.
I've tried uw-imap, Dovecot and Cyrus. I like Cyrus the best. It is
designed for and can handle large scale imap systems, but I run it on
my home server. Works very well and is robust. It's not hard to set
up on opensuse.
Jim F
When I tried Dovecot, I couldn't get it to see any of the existing
subfolders under my inbox, even though uw-imap worked fine. Is there
a similar issure with Cyrus?
Hi James,
It's been a while since I tested Dovecot, but as I remember, uw-imap and
Coruier read different mail box file formats. One reads mbox, the other
maidir (don't remember which is which at the moment). The beauty of
Dovecot is that it can be configured to read one or the other format. In
Dovecot you may want to adjust this setting if you are having trouble.
In any case, all of the above read mail from /var/spool/mail. Cyrus
works differently. When you set up opensuse to use Cryus imap, it will
store mail in /var/spool/imap. I think it is because Cyrus imap does
lots of active stuff behind the sceens in managing your mail. When you
look at logs for example, there are lots of entries where cyrus imap is
doing reads and other stuff to it. In practice I never notice a thing.
Except for the fact that it has other benefits such as error correction.
I've noticed in the past when moving a large number or emails from one
folder to another (say a months or more worth of opensuse emails)
uw-imap for example might get overwhelemed, and I wound up loosing some
emails in the process. Since I started using Cyrus imap, this has never
happened. Sometimes (agian moving large amounts of email at one time)
the move process might fail, but Cyrus restores all mails to their
original location. Active fault tolerance. This is one of the reasons I
like Cyrus.
But, you have to set it up differently, i.e. the mail is stored in a
different location and in a cyrus format than the other imap solutions.
You set it up using yast, which configures all that stuff for you. It is
not hard.
Oops, I've rambled again. Hope I answered your Dovecot question.
Jim F
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