On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 10:17 -0600, Stephen Smith wrote: > We are planning to replace our current mail server which is sendmail > configured for SMTP only. We would like to move to an IMAP server with > more security. The RH distribution has dovecot as a secure IMAP server, > but I have heard little about it.
Dovecot, no matter what Hans thinks about it, still can't replace Sendmail. You will need an SMTP daemon regardless of what's handling IMAP. Some software suites handle all of them (eg. Courier), some come separately. Just want to make sure we're clear on that, otherwise your mail flow will quickly dry up. > What would be your recommendations for quickly moving our existing > server and accounts to a new platform. > > Which IMAP server would you use? > > Which is the easiest to manage? > > What benefits are there for your particular recommendation that set it > appart from the others? For my own personal server, I use Exim 4 (for SMTP) and Courier (for POP and IMAP). It wasn't hard to set up. Courier is pretty much dead simple. There's just not much to an IMAP server. Exim I love because the acl rules are so darned powerful. Now for my company, it was a different story. We're an ISP and managing all the little pieces of a hacked together setup for thousands of users got to be a real pain. We recently switched to Surgemail which is an SMTP, IMAP, POP, webmail, mailing list, you name it suite. It's not Free nor free, but we've been quite happy with it. Corey
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