> Quoting Brian C Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Which IMAP serever does everyone like? > > > > "it depends".
Heh. I had a professor at Ga Tech who claimed that the only valid answer to a general and non-trivial question is "it depends". That has always been one of my more favorite things learned in school. :-) > UW uses Version 7 mbox spools (as does qpopper). Not very > efficient. At least *most* of the time, pop servers send > and delete all the mail; IMAP users don't. This gives you > a bigger penalty (removing message 135 from a 2000 message file > means a LOT of copies). It also doesn't scale very well, for > some definition of scale. While you can exceed 20k users, > it gets painful. UW also has various forms of support for Kerberos, PAM, and AFS. So, if you're doing anything involving those, you may want or need to look toward UW. Communigate Pro is another IMAP flavor. It runs on tons of platforms, scales to clusters of servers, and has lots of other features. It does a modified mbox format for storage (the envelope "from " contains extra, non-standard, information), but it doesn't directly use the file for most transactions (from what I can tell, it relies heavily upon cached information and then periodically sync's that information back to disk). It claims to scale well to gobs of users, and also does mailing list support and personal web page space. They're at www.stalker.com.
