From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 19:50:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7164D16A400 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.yerex@science.ubc.ca) Received: from gable.science.ubc.ca (gable.science.ubc.ca [142.103.151.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5535B13C45E for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.yerex@science.ubc.ca) In-Reply-To: <20070627021432.GA73579@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> To: "Michael W. Lucas" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0.2 September 26, 2006 Message-ID: From: Tom Yerex Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:36:40 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on GABLE/UBC(Release 7.0.2FP1|January 10, 2007) at 06/27/2007 12:50:14, Serialize complete at 06/27/2007 12:50:14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended IMAP server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:50:14 -0000 I found the end-user features were more significant than the particular implementation. (Keep in mind that I have not used any of these products recently, my last contact was early last year...) For example, Cyrus configured with Berkeley DB as the backend seemed to provide faster search results than Courier, which for end-users that relied on their mail to store documents made a big difference for us. Courier with maildir provided easier backup than Cyrus. Cyrus seems to provide the ability to replicate and distribute loads much easier than Courier. Cyrus with db backend required periodic checks for database corruption..etc... >From what I am told, Dovecot is a "cleaner" implementation and shows promise, but is not as mature and suffers under high loads. Hope this helps some, Tom. "Michael W. Lucas" Sent by: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org 06/26/2007 07:49 PM To isp@freebsd.org cc Subject Recommended IMAP server? Hi, I find myself needing to implement IMAP on FreeBSD. Any suggestions on the "preferred" IMAP server? It appears that we have three "main" IMAP daemons in ports: imap-wu, cyrus-imapd, and courier-imap. I need to pick one. My mail system uses Sendmail+sasl2 and milter-greylist. I want to stick as close to a "stock" FreeBSD as possible, so I'm not into reading users from LDAP or anything like that. It seems that imap-wu lets you synch up to /var/mail/username, but only that. Courier uses maildir, which means installing procmail and having a .procmailrc for every account. It appears that cyrus-imap23 uses its own delivery agent to build a maildir-like structure. Does this pretty much summarize my choices, or are there other things I should be aware of before implementing any of these on FreeBSD? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org, mwlucas@FreeBSD.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Coming Soon: "Absolute FreeBSD" -- http://www.AbsoluteFreeBSD.com On 5/4/2007, the TSA kept 3 pairs of my soiled undies "for security reasons." _______________________________________________ freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"