"Drop in" replacement for imap-UW?

[Jonathan Horne]

On Monday 31 December 2007 01:42:14 pm Joe in MPLS wrote:
> I've been running imap-UW on FreeBSD 6.x STABLE for a while. Clients are
> mostly Thunderbird, TREOs and Horde (running on the same box.
>
> I'm having issues when multiple clients try to access the same user's
> mailbox. Typically the TREO will do a scheduled check for new mail while
> Thunderbird has it already open. Research indicates that this is a
> limitation of the UW imapd implementation.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good and secure imapd implementation that won't
> require a ton of reconfiguration? Mostly I'd like the replacement to be
> able to use all the existing end-user imap folders and mail spools. All
> users have accounts and mail spools on the box. There's no virtual users
> or database authentication backends to deal with.
>
>         TIA     ...jgm

im not having any trouble using kmail from my freebsd desktop, thunderbird 
from my mac, and outlook from my pocketpc all at the same time, using 
dovecot.

cheers,
-- 
Jonathan Horne
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