Mail system Suggestions

[Mikhail Goriachev]

Martin Hudec wrote:
> You can give dovecot a try now :), I use it on all mailservers in 
> production environments. It handles my ~54k mails in my mail account 
> pretty well (only slowdown is detected if I use gprs connection ~56kbits).
> 
> One good thing that counts in for dovecot is that postfix in its current 
> 2.3.x line is able to do smtp authentication directly via dovecot (so no 
> use for sasl* packages) to any backend you use (mysql, ldap etc.) in 
> your dovecot config. Nice and clean. More info:
> http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_dovecot
> 
> Dovecot with its 1.0 version is pretty stable now, I have been using it 
> since 0.99.x versions (now alpha port is in use, upgrade to beta is 
> planned).
> 
> Courier-imap is good choice too, I have no objections to it, but my one 
> subjective one perhaps: in its older versions (3.0.x) it seemed to have 
> some kind of psychic problems when dealing with Thunderbird mailclients. 
> Then I switched to Dovecot.


Thanks for the info.


Cheers,
Mikhail.


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