Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:28:14 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Mark Segal <mark@club-web.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMAP servers Message-ID: <ML-3.3.871428494.5562.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <33F0ACED.AD55D014@club-web.com>
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> Just a few questions, > > I've been thinking about setting up an IMAP server (well do to > requests for it). and i have a few questions to the learned amoungst us. > > 1) What is the best package ie (port) > 2) Why did u set it up, what are the advantages to it? I've been using the CMU Cyrus server for a couple of years now. I don't remember exactly why I chose it over the UW server. For details about the Cyrus IMAP software, see: http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/ One thing I like about it is that both mail delivery and the IMAP daemons run as user cyrus, with -NO- special priveleges. In fact, since I gave that user its own group, it has even less access than the average user. (I don't know how that compares with other IMAP systems.) It also comes with a POP-to-IMAP daemon that will allow older non-IMAP clients to access IMAP mailboxes via POP3. (Limited, of course, to the capabilities of POP3.) This isn't much of an issue any more; but it was when I first set up the system. -Pat
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