Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:04:52 -0500 From: Edward Shabotinsky <evs@telod.net> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended IMAP server? Message-ID: <21EA5E66-5F27-402C-8324-2A21143CC5C8@telod.net> In-Reply-To: <20070627021432.GA73579@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20070627021432.GA73579@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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hi, try dovecot i like it. very light and easy to configure On Jun 26, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > 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"
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