Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:56:38 -0500 From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?B?S/Z2ZXNk4W4gR+Fib3I=?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a new server Message-ID: <014601c62750$7a259c70$d51a2cd0@lisac> References: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> <43E0D884.4040109@t-hosting.hu>
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Hi Gabor, > > I'd suggest using courier-imap or something else instead of qpopper. > Afaik, qpopper supports only the mailbox format, which is slower and less > secure than the maildir format used by modern pop3/imap servers. > Courier-imap has a pop3 and an imap part, both of them have SSL support > and are easily configurable. Your company migth benefit from running an > imap server too. It has a bunch of advantages over pop3, so this might > make your users feel more appreciated. I agree you have a pointg here, my main concerns are: 1) I'm used to Sendmail/Qpopper. I'm used to installing these, maintaining these and troubleshooting these. I also want changing over the mail server to be as seamless as possible for our customers. So I don't really want to add a Courier-imap learning curve (for both myself and my customers) right on top of things. 2) I also am used to (and kind of like) having all of the mailboxes in one location on the system (/var/mail/). How much of a performance hit is there in mbox mailboxes vs mdir format mailboxes? Lisa Casey
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