From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 20 8: 0:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144EC15347 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:00:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA98837; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:00:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:00:05 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Troy Settle Cc: Matthew Hagerty , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Recommendations for an IMAP server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Troy Settle wrote: > > Having run uw-imap for the past several months, I'd reccomend against it. > It's slow and unresponsive at times, and the accompanying popper just plain > sucks. > > When people talk about Cyrus, they say good things about the imap > implementation, but I've never heard anyone praising the popper portion of > the package. Can anyone shed some light? It just works, thats probably why nobody talks about it. I have been using Cyrus for about 250 accounts for a couple of years with a mix of both IMAP and POP3 clients (moving towards 100% IMAP) without any problems whatsoever. The commandline interface for managing the mailboxes mostly sucks, but there is nothing keeping you from writing your own easily. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message