Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

[Matthias Buelow]

Bill Moran wrote:

> I've been using Dovecot for quite some time now.  It's not even a 1.0
> product yet, and I still find it excellent for both POP and IMAP.  It
> includes support for both POP3S and IMAPS, which I find very important
> in this day and age.

I've had bad experience so far with dovecot, including, but not limited 
to, lock file problems, hung imap processes in the bulk, and behaviour 
that neither matched the comments in the sample config file, nor the 
documentation (and both were contradictory), like the way to configure 
inbox and folder locations.
Unless the OP has the time and resources to experiment, I'd suggest 
leaving that software alone for a while still until it has been 
stabilized, and go for proven alternatives like Cyrus or Courier (or 
even uw-imapd, if it's a one-person setup).

mkb.