Re: POP3, lock files and procmail

From: Les Mikesell (les.w.hanson_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/15/03 

Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 01:59:39 GMT

"Mark Crispin" <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote in message
news:Pine.NXT.4.56.0307140722190.16428@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM...
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > If original authors would dual-license their works like perl, there
would
> > be no need to rewrite things for political reasons on either the pro or
> > anti-GPL side.
>
> Dual-licensing may be useful if the non-GPL license is more restrictive
> than the GPL.

No, it works for perl with a less restrictive license. The key is that
the code is allowed to be restributed under the conditions of either
license. Since you can distribute it under the GPL there is no
reason for GPL proponents to rewrite it and nothing to prevent
linking with GPL'd code. Since you can also distribute it under the
less restrictive licence it is non-viral when not linked with strictly
GPL'd components.

> Does the GNU POP3 server support maildir? It seems to support only
> traditional UNIX format files.

I don't think so.

> Nobody has succeeded in producing working maildir support in the IMAP
> toolkit. The "widely used" patches for maildir support are buggy and
> cause problem even for people who don't use maildir.

That's why I wish you'd fix it... I tend to have huge folders and moving
things
around with normal unix format files is painfully slow so I've forwarded my
mail to another machine that uses maildir and the patched uw-imap. It has
much better performance but there are some ugly quirks, especially
with it's concept of time.

> At least one Linux
> vendor that uses those patches has given up on them.

Is this their replacement: http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/, and would
you recommend it? 

---
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@comcast.net

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