[Techtalk] imap server

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:58, jennyw wrote:
> A project I've been keeping my eye on is Dovecot. It's relatively new
> (hasn't reached 1.0 yet), but it sounds great, especially for those of
> us who keep a lot of messages in a folder (I often have more than 30,000
> messages in a folder). It was written by the same person who wrote
> irssi.

It is installed imap server on the latest version of Mitel's Managed 
Application Server (aka SME aka E-Smith).  Until a week or so ago it was 
still seriously buggy an could not handle deleting more than about 100 
messages at a time.  (Due to the use of qmail, the admin account gets 
hundreds of bounced message each day.)  This seems to have been fixed in 
recent update to SME, but I am not sure if the fix is in the official 
version.

I have also tested BincImap, and at the time it was *extremely* slow.  It may 
have improved since then.  (I was migrating my personal mail archive - it 
took a few hours with Courier and Cyrus, but IIRC it took Binc well over 
10hrs.)

Jen has mentioned UW-imap.  There used to be a patch to get it to support 
maildirs, but the patch is no longer maintained.

There is also DBmail, which stores all the mail in either MySQL or PostgreSQL.  
Could be worth having a look at in certain situations.

Oh, and yes, I can recommend Courier.  I run it on my desktop (SuSE) box at 
home so I can change mail clients easily.  I forgot.  :0

I can provide step by step instructions on how to set up Cyrus on Debian 
(Woody with a backport, or Sarge) working with Postfix.  I'll put it up as a 
howto on my website at some point.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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