[Cialug] Preferred pop3 or imap daemons

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Mon Dec 11 10:36:25 CST 2006


James Shoemaker wrote:
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> David Champion wrote:
>> I've used courier, dovecot, cyrus, wu-imap, mostly with postfix, but
>> have also used cyrus with sendmail.
>>
>> Personally I like courier with postfix the best. Courier seems to be
>> easier to use, and less finicky than dovecot.
>>
>> I'd only use Cyrus again if I needed the advanced features it supports,
>> which I don't.
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>   Advanced features like a folder that can hold both mail and folders?
> 
>   I run cyrus at home (and have for 5-6 years) they use Courier at work
> and I am always annoyed when I am required to chose if a folder holds
> mail or folders.
> 
> James
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This must be an old, or alternate setting for Courier. wu-imapd used to 
behave that way too, no idea if it still does. I have no such folder 
issues with my implementation running courier.

-dc



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