IMAP server alternatives

[Philip Hallstrom]

>> I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this order. 
>> :-)
>> Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it was 
>> very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for me. :-)
>
> One thing to note here, and I've never looked into dovecot, so maybe its 
> similar, but cyrus-imapd is a black-box mail spool ... mailbox != password 
> entry, and the mail spool is *only* accessible through imap/pop3, no "local 
> mail" ... it was designed to handle systems where needing >65536 mailboxes 
> was a requirement, as well as security ...

Dovecot has similar functionality....

-philip