From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 24 16:12:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pianosa.catch22.org (pianosa.catch22.org [64.81.48.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19A937B400; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pianosa.catch22.org (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E2FC2C5; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:39:12 -0700 From: Danny Howard To: Brad Knowles Cc: fcash@bigfoot.com, Nik Clayton , chat@freebsd.org, Freddie Cash Subject: Re: IMAP server recommendations Message-ID: <20020424153912.E13388@pianosa.catch22.org> References: <3CC5F3C5.17529.66E7800@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:32:19AM +0200 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:32:19AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > The Cyrus concept is to run as a "black box" mail server that > allows *ONLY* IMAP as the mailbox access method, and of course you > need some sort of method to store messages as well. By eliminating > support for all that unnecessary stuff (especially local users, all > the other mailbox formats, etc...), Cyrus can be very fast, and can > scale very, very well. Cyrus supports POP as well. And it really is not all that horrible to set up. I managed it in under an hour, possibly half. They key is to RTFM. The problem is that you don't notice TFM because it is a web site not posted to the web. Thus, I tossed http://yourmom.toldme.com/cyrus/ from the last install I did, so Google could help you find TFM. :) -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message