Bug#560696: tasksel: The mail-server task should install dovecot instead of qpopper and uw-imapd
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Christian Perrier skrev:
> > I personnally tend to agree that dovecot is probably a much better
> > choice than qpopper+uw-imapd.
>
> I agree too. I switched from uw-imapd to dovecot on a medium-sized server
> (~1000 users) a few years ago, and it works much better.
>
> uw-imapd doesn't even (officially) support maildir:
>
> http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#1.31
>
> (Although I think Debian has patched it.)
The Debian patch was recently removed due to licensing reasons, which was
put in NEWS.Debian which I saw thanks to apt-listchanges being installed
in the standard task and is the reason I noticed uw-imapd was installed.
The system works!
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