Recommended IMAP server?

[Edward Shabotinsky]

hi,
try dovecot

i like it. very light and easy to configure


On Jun 26, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I find myself needing to implement IMAP on FreeBSD.  Any suggestions
> on the "preferred" IMAP server?
>
> It appears that we have three "main" IMAP daemons in ports: imap-wu,
> cyrus-imapd, and courier-imap.  I need to pick one.  My mail system
> uses Sendmail+sasl2 and milter-greylist.  I want to stick as close to
> a "stock" FreeBSD as possible, so I'm not into reading users from LDAP
> or anything like that.
>
> It seems that imap-wu lets you synch up to /var/mail/username, but
> only that.
>
> Courier uses maildir, which means installing procmail and having a
> .procmailrc for every account.
>
> It appears that cyrus-imap23 uses its own delivery agent to build a
> maildir-like structure.
>
> Does this pretty much summarize my choices, or are there other things
> I should be aware of before implementing any of these on FreeBSD?
>
> Thanks,
> ==ml
>
> --  
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