Quoting "Jason R. Mastaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > With the venture of building this new machine, I am faced with the > > possible advantages of switching to an IMAP system and was > > interested in hearing from people who might not mind sharing their > > opinions about why they chosem POP3 or IMAP, whether they use mbox > > files or Maildir, and which MTA they prefer. > > mbox vs. Maildir: > > This is an easy one for me since I don't like losing mail. mbox files > are not safe or reliable, and Maildir is. Case closed. For > Maildir-based IMAP servers there is Courier-IMAP, which I've used. > I've also heard good things about Binc IMAP > (http://www.bincimap.org/).
FYI, I'm using bincimap (1.2.0b1 with a couple bugfix patches) and it's working out great with all of: Horde/Imp webmail MS Outlook Express Mozilla Thunderbird There are a few minor quirks - when OE/Thunderbird check for new mail, it doesn't always show new mail in sub-folders until I actively click on those sub-folders. This could easily be OE/Thunderbird (symptoms are a little different between each!) *or* bincimap (since my version is a bit outdated) - but it's certainly quite usable. I'm running qmail as the MTA and obviously using Maildir. My virtual domains are kindof a custom hack-job base off a bunch of HOWTOs on the 'net, but very similar to vpopmail. I keep being mildly tempted to switch away from qmail (either using the Perl qmail-smtpd replacement, or to another MTA [or write my own in Python!]) to get new features such as SPF checking etc. etc. at the SMTP level, without maintaining 1000 patches against the source myself... -- Stephen Warren, Software Engineer, Parama Networks, San Jose, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wwwdotorg.org/ _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
