From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 14: 8: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (mail.tgd.net [209.81.25.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CCD37B42C for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.tgd.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6892320F0A; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:22:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:22:56 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: Danny Howard Cc: Dan Delaney , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If not uw-imap, then WHICH imap? Message-ID: <20020303212256.R20143@ninja1.internal> References: <20020228140914.GA1805@raggedclown.net> <20020228232306.C244@ninja1.internal> <20020303211622.K3896@pianosa.catch22.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020303211622.K3896@pianosa.catch22.org>; from "dannyman@toldme.com" on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at = 09:16:22PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Since the FreeBSD port of uw-imap exclaims that uw-imap has > > > known security problems, and thus does not recommend using it, > > > then my question is, WHICH imapd server do the FreeBSD folks > > > recommend if you don't want to convert ALL of your users' mbox > > > mail folders to maildir or Cyrus formats? Or, is there some > > > reason why we really SHOULD convert to one of those formats? > > > > Courier IMAP server. -sc > > Please read before posting - Courier doesn't support mbox. > > To answer Dan's question: Maildir is useful if you want to mount > mail via NFS, and will have to live without reliable file locking. > > Personally, I'd be inclined to just bite the bullet and install > UW-IMAP, if that's what my users wanted, especially if I was in a > relatively secure environment, say a firewalled network, where the > user community could be regarded as somewhat trustworthy. Cyrus is > a lot of fun, but you definately have to have the time to enjoy it. > I played with Courier a bit and it just seemed really ooky, in that > the config files I saw were really just shell scripts to set > environment variables that the imapd would then use. > > YMMV, there is no ideal IMAPD. Perhaps there exists the right > combination of mbox and IMAP Perl modules to cobble one together? :) Not to knock my alumni, esp since the IMAP standard is such a wonderful concept, but, I don't trust the UW-IMAP server at all. If you'd like, I can give you a script that'll convert all of your mbox mailboxes to Maildir. It's a quick and painless perl script that fits in nicely with existing systems. I've migrated over 30,000 mboxes with it before. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message