I recently posted a similar response -- what pop/imap deamon do other users recommend? -- to the Xandros user forum. See bottom for it:
On 12/23/04 11:23 AM, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:10:24 -0500, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:48:31 -0500, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:1) Mail - Right now my mail spools are in mailbox format. I'm thinking that I should consider conversion to another format such as maildir. What's involved in such a conversion? Which mail chain programs are sensitive to the mailbox format and need to be reconfigured. Heres what
I'm using now: procmail - I think this needs re-configuring fetchmail -
I think that it doesn't care it goes through procmail sendmail - ? uwimap/pop daemon - ?
I recently switched from WU-Imapd to Cyrus Imapd which stores messages in something similar to maildir. I wasn't using the standard mbox format on UW-Imapd, but their higher performance mbx format (which, btw, is what the TriLUG imap server uses) and yet Cyrus Imap blows it away for performance. I would highly recommend looking into cyrus. It is more complicated to setup, but it's already packaged in both Debian (sarge) and Mandrake.
Cheers, Tanner
The freshmeat web page on Cyrus indicates that it's generally intended to be run in a sealed system which users don't normally log into.
In my case I've got one machine on which I run a variety of services like mail, apache, etc. I also log into this machine as a workstation. How much of an issue is this for running Cyrus? or for migrating?
This is for my home/family lan. My wife and I are the only users, apart for some accounts set up for particular applications.
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:33 am Post subject: Re: pop3d deamon for spooled mailboxes
Debian Unsupported has quite a number of "pop3d" packages to choose from. Here are the ones that get listed in apt-get:
UW-pop3d/imapd - Univ. Washinton's package; supposed to be the definitive package, and the one used by Solaris, AIX and UnixWare; they are the author's of the RFC's on the subject; I still get an "authentication error" when I use root to access it -- and their website has no documentation on how to configure it
Cyrus - Carnegie Mellon's package; does not access mbox format (ie.
/var/spool/mail/{$USERNAME}), but rather uses mh style directoriesDovecot - Supposed to be a UW- and Courier- replacement, but with security in mind; main one pushed by Debian for Debian releases
solid-pop3d - I can't find anything out about it -- the home and docs are in Russian
qmail-pop3d/imapd - Part of the QMail packages; I found a doc that says that qmail-pop3d can use sendmail instead of qmail, but all other docs say no, depends on qmail
Courier Suite - mostly IMAPd, not POPd; again an overall package; main one pushed for Slackware and FreeBSD
mailutils - GNU MailUtils package, designed to be used as mail server for virtual users over the web; suitable for a web-host provider
LibRoxen - Roxen Challenger webserver mail server; handles virtual mailboxes suitable for a web-host provider (not for local users and maildir format)
I still don't know which one to choose, but I think I am leaning toward Dovecot. I need your input on this. ------------end of post------------
I went Dovecot myself.
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