Re: IMAP Mail server question

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:25:13AM +0000, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote:
Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles
about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go
with.

There's really very little difference. Dovecot is supposedly a little
faster, but if you reached the point where that becomes an issue you
need to look at cyrus anyway.

Haven't done Dovecot on Debian (do it all the time on RHEL tho). For
Courier, just apt-get install courier-imap (I think that's the package
name). There's nothing to configure unless you want to use virtual
users/domains and/or ldap/mysq. Plenty of good documentation about that
on the web.

There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by
hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using
the -f switch of maildirmake. Believe me, it can save you lots of grief.
Otherwise courier-imap-ssl works out of the box.

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