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Date:      Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:38:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Mark Hughes <mh_lists@digitalspy.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: IMAP server... Is there one?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111051736480.17249-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111051613430.9863-100000@www.digitalspy.co.uk>

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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Mark Hughes wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jan Grant wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Mark Hughes wrote:
> > > Okay guys, I'm pulling my hair out now... I've been looking for a simple,
> > > lightweight, IMAPD implementation. I just want to access normal mailboxes
> > > (rules out courier-imap and cyrus-imap), I don't want to use IMAP-UW
> > > because of that HUGE security warning it blurts over the screen when
> > > installing the port.
> > >
> > > There's dkimap4 which looks promising but the lack of any documentation for
> > > it anywhere in the world means I haven't been able to get it working.
> > >
> > > So, please, anyone, any ideas, what should I use to get IMAP access to
> > > standard mail accounts on a FreeBSD box? It doesn't have to be heavy duty,
> > > won't be used too much at all, it just needs to work :+)
>
> > Alas, IMAP isn't particularly lightweight. However, once you get any of
> > them working, the things you've ruled out work quite well :-/
>
> Really? Oh dear... Anyone got any ideas on how to setup dkimap4 from the
> ports? I've tried installing it and it doesn't work "out of the box", and
> there was no docs with it or on the net anywhere..
>
> Of the other three, which one would you recommend?

I use cyrus here; courier is good too (perhaps a little lighter) and
probably easier to get going than cyrus; it also coexists nicely with
qmail. I wouldn't touch UW-IMAP with a bargepole. I'll have a look at
the dkimap4 tomorrow...


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