Recommended IMAP server?

[Tom Yerex]

I found the end-user features were more significant than the particular 
implementation. (Keep in mind that I have not used any of these products 
recently, my last contact was early last year...)

For example, Cyrus configured with Berkeley DB as the backend seemed to 
provide faster search results than Courier, which for end-users that 
relied on their mail to store documents made a big difference for us. 
Courier with maildir provided easier backup than Cyrus. Cyrus seems to 
provide the ability to replicate and distribute loads much easier than 
Courier. Cyrus with db backend required periodic checks for database 
corruption..etc...

>From what I am told, Dovecot is a "cleaner" implementation and shows 
promise, but is not as mature and suffers under high loads.

Hope this helps some,

Tom.





"Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org> 
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Recommended IMAP server?






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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