Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:05:39 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which pop3 and imap server to take from ports collection ? Message-ID: <34F68FF3.8D134FB1@urc.ac.ru> References: <19980227101428.38630@hightek.com>
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Andreas Klemm wrote: > > What pop/imap servers are stable and perform well ? > > imap-uw from Washington university ??? > > Or is popper recommended for use for pop2/3 ? > There is also Cyrus (imap + pop3). I took an interest in it, because I needed IMAP, and had security and stability problems with imap-uw. It seems to be more powerful and secure than imap-uw. I have installed it at my server a month ago. Works fine. [ If somebody got problems with Cyrus, please tell me. ] One disadvantage (at the first look) is uncompatible format of mailboxes. Our users had to migrate to Cyrus server from imap-uw on antoher host by first moving their mail folders to local hosts, then to Cyrus server. But Cyrus provides creation of shareable mail folders with very flexible access permissions - great advantage for collaboration, as I think. It can be integrated easily into distribution's sendmail by few lines in .mc file. And what I liked most is Cyrus' ability to trace IMAP protocol on session basis. It was incredibly helpful while setting up Netscape Communicator and Pine IMAP clients to work with IMAP server. By the way, a question on another side of IMAP: have anybody set up Netscape Communicator (Mail) under UNIX to work wuth IMAP server? I have failed with NC 4.04-Release for FreeBSD and Solaris 2.4, with both imap-uw and Cyrus. NC for Windows works almost fine. -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, Joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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