[Cialug] Preferred pop3 or imap daemons

[James Shoemaker]

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David Champion wrote:
> James Shoemaker wrote:
> 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.
> 
>   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

> 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.

  Probably has to do with maildir vs mbox storage of mail.  The courier
at work is running against mbox mailboxes.  I didn't know that courier
could work against maildir.

James
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