You are gonna have ALOT of problems with courier-imap if your clients
are using all the clients you described here...
The guy who wrote courier-imap is fanatically standard compliant and
thus it isn't really suited for use with todays
almost-but-not-really-standard-compliant imap clients like netscape,
outlook and so on :)
I have tried to set it up myself and came to the coclusion that either
courier-imap needs alot of patching to allow stupid clients (and no the
switch to help stupid clients that is allready there isn't enough at
all) or else courier-imap will have to wait a few years to be put into
use :)
If i were you i would instead use the patch UW-imapd 4.7 that you will
find here:
http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/distrib/imap-4.7/imap-4.7-maildirpatched-1.00.tar.gz
this patched version supports Maildir and it runs like a dream (i've
been using it for a few weeks now)
Well that was my 5 cents
/Martin
Mike Jackson wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am gearing up to convert a sendmail system with pop/imap access on a
> DEC Alpha to a Qmail-LDAP / Courier Imap virtual user environment on a
> Sun Netra T105 with Solaris 8. Could somebody provide me with an
> estimate of how much hard disk space I need based on your personal
> experience. My setup is as follows:
>
> * Qmail with Maildir storage
> * currently 170 users, but the number grows from 5-10 a month
> * Imap only access to the server
> * virtual user environment
> * All mail stored on the server
> * Clients include Outlook, OE, Pine, Mutt, Netscape, etc. Windows
> clients don't always compact their folders as often as they should and
> some have never done it.
> * Current mailboxes on the DEC Alpha contain from 1 week to 5 years of
> messages.
>
> I have estimated the current disk usage on the DEC Alpha to be around
> 70GB just for mail, but this is just a quick look at users home
> directories and /var/spool/mail. The actual size of those directories is
> approx 105GB.
>
> Please copy me personally also if you reply.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
