Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:46:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMAP server alternatives Message-ID: <20060713234622.M35606@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20060714000047.N1799@ganymede.hub.org> References: <44B3A7AA.1050600@enternet.hu> <44B3E271.4090700@freemail.hu> <20060714000047.N1799@ganymede.hub.org>
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>> I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this order. >> :-) >> Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it was >> very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for me. :-) > > One thing to note here, and I've never looked into dovecot, so maybe its > similar, but cyrus-imapd is a black-box mail spool ... mailbox != password > entry, and the mail spool is *only* accessible through imap/pop3, no "local > mail" ... it was designed to handle systems where needing >65536 mailboxes > was a requirement, as well as security ... Dovecot has similar functionality.... -philip
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