From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 16:57:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1D516A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:57:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lisa@jellico.com) Received: from mail.jellico.com (mail.jellico.com [208.44.26.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C18543D53 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:57:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lisa@jellico.com) Received: from lisac (lisa.jellico.com [208.44.26.213]) by mail.jellico.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k11H6jP7007009; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:06:46 -0500 Message-ID: <014601c62750$7a259c70$d51a2cd0@lisac> From: "Lisa Casey" To: =?iso-8859-1?B?S/Z2ZXNk4W4gR+Fib3I=?= References: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> <43E0D884.4040109@t-hosting.hu> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:56:38 -0500 Organization: Netlink 2000, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 127.0.0.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:57:33 -0000 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