I actually don't have that much experience with Dovecot, but more than
Courier. I would vote in favor of using Dovecot for the following
reasons:
- It is part of the RHEL 4 distribution. It is already installed, and I
can trust the source. Patches are automatically available via up2date.
(Obviously this is only something that applies to RHEL people, but is
important for me.)
Wouldn't matter, as we'd have to take that out to use dovecot-toaster.
This is because we'd have to configure it to work with the
QmailToaster. We support more than one distro, and we would want to
ensure uniform support. Using QmailToaster pretty much relies on our
project for security.
- It is very easy to configure.
The Courier IMAP Server is already preconfigured.
- It is _supposedly_ more modular, secure, and reliable than courier.
See: http://www.dovecot.org/doc/
Dovecot is a new code base. Time wil judge the security. As far as
modularity, it does look a little more modular in the design, I will
have to take a closer look.
Courier does separate the auth with the mail daemon as well, which is
why we have a courier-authlib package.
Since this is already installed and running, and apparently hooks into
vpopmail, I will probably just keep on using it.
Good luck, let me know.
What about you, any particular reason for me to use Courier (or more
specifically, the QT Courier package)?
Support. If you send mail here asking about issues with pop/imap,
you'll get answers about courier or no answers at all.
I will look closer at Dovecot, and will possibly release a package if
theres enough demand for it.
Thanks,
Erik
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