From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 00:48:00 2004 Return-Path: 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 7560316A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088A243D55 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:48:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr) Received: from localhost.esiee.fr (localhost.esiee.fr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED6F365927; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:47:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (localhost.esiee.fr [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.esiee.fr (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.16) id 33227-774F39AB; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:47:58 +0200 Received: from bart.esiee.fr (desolation.esiee.fr [147.215.1.13]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEC5365921; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:47:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <408778AD.9040800@bart.esiee.fr> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:47:57 +0200 From: Frank Bonnet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny MacMillan References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.25.0.2; VDF: 6.25.0.24; host: mail.esiee.fr) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMAP server and client recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: f.bonnet@esiee.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:48:00 -0000 Danny MacMillan a =E9crit : > Is it feasible to use the IMAP server as a mail storage solution like=20 > this? Can anyone recommend a good IMAP server (for FreeBSD of course)=20 > and give me some tips on considerations for choosing one? I blush to=20 > say it, but I've never even had an IMAP account. >=20 > Thanks in advance. >=20 Hello Danny I administer the mailhub of our site (http://www.esiee.fr) we use UW imap server for all of our 2500 users. We are an engineers school in electronics and have about 2000 students that use different machines/OS inside the school. The machine is a COMPAQ Proliant 360 with 2.5 Gb RAM and _a lot_ of disk space. The main advantage of imap is the emails stay on the server and every user can access its mailboxes from anywhere and find the same "environnement" when accessing from different machines. The main problem is disk space if you have many users but thoses days harddisks are cheap. Also think to a method to bachup mailboxes. We also use an old webmail that access emails thru IMAP. Speaking about formats mbox or maildir For historical reasons we use mbox but if I have to build a new Imap server I think I'll choose maildir which is slower to access but more safe "one file per email" this is of course a personnal thought. Hope this helps --=20 Cordialement, Frank Bonnet