Implementing IMAP advice for first timer

[Eric]

Noah wrote:
> FreeBSD-4.11
> 
> Well I want to get IMAP running on my FreeBSD box and would like to have a
> safe, non service-interrupting strategy to implementing it.  I am leaning
> toward installing cyrus imapd.  I have some questions about how to get things
> working. 
> 

I recommend checking out dovecot as well. i switched from courier to
dovecot recently and couldnt be happier.  My MTA is postfix and i use
maildir format for storage with horde/imp on the front end.  Works very well