From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 12 16:30:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00817 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA00810 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:30:43 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wyQOg-0000UT-00; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:30:42 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA21989; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:28:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: IMAP servers To: Mark Segal cc: isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <33F0ACED.AD55D014@club-web.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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