IMAP server alternatives

[jan gestre]

On 7/11/06, Nagy László <nagylzs at enternet.hu> wrote:
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>
>   Hello,
>
> I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a
> day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a
> majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list
> but nobody answers. I do not see answer to my question in its
> documentation.
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> Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g.
> working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP
> folders between users?
>
> These are the ones I see:
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> bincimap -- only maildir, cannot share folders
> courier -- uses the maildir format, but I'm not sure about sharing
> cyrus-imapd -- I could not find support for this
> dbmail-mysql -- AFAIK no folder sharing
> dkimap -- ???
> dovecot -- early stages of development, can I trust in this?
> imap-uw -- only maildir, cannot share folders
> py24-twistedMail -- Looks like this is only a collection of modules
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> I could use py24-twistedMail to create shared folders, but this requires
> re-inventing the weel. What do you recommend?
>
> i'm using dovecot, it one great imap/pop server, built with security in
> mind.
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