Jim Flanagan wrote: > 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. >>> >> 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? > > 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).
Hi Folks, I've been using wu-imap since the early '90s and have been told numerous times about how bad it is. Say what you will about the mbox format, but its big advantage is the files are all ascii. This means they can be grepped and fiddled with outside of the imap system. I once considered one of the other systems that uses maildir format, but chickened out because I didn't want all of our 50 or so accounts being stored in a database format. This smelled too much like MS Exchange for me. I also don't recall ever loosing mail due to wu-imap, but am willing to hear reasons to change. Has anyone ever had problems with the maildir format? Do tools outside of the imap daemon exist for manipulation of the data? Are maildir systems compatible with "pine"? Yes, we still have pine users. Regards, Lew Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
