Re: IMAP Experiences.
I use Cyrus extensively, and yes, it uses its own database. However, it
works very well with shell acounts anyways, you just have people configure
their shell email client (granted it doesn't work with mail) to use IMAP
to localhost.
The advandages of having it with its own database far outweigh the extra
hassle of using IMAP on the shells. The mbox format is prone to
corruption and slowness, and uses a lot of memory, while cyrus seems
fairly efficent (while pine becomes unusable at more than a few thousand
messages with the standard mail spool, I have had 30k messages in a folder
with cyrus and pine using IMAP, and while slow, it was usable).
Charlie
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Ken Bowley wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Ken Gunderson wrote:
>
> > At 11:22 PM 11/26/99 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > >Hi.
> > >
> > >I've had someone ask me about the possibility of IMAP. I must say it's
> > >not a service I feel particularly comfortable running - the only IMAP
> > >package in Debian seems to be the UW one, which has had more than it's
> > >fair share of remote exploits from what I remember.
> > >
> > >Anyone any words of wisdom about the best server out there? Or indeed if
> > >there are any fit to be run open to the whole world?
> >
> > Bag the UW server and go with Cyrus.
>
> Does the Cyrus IMAP server work the same as the UW server? Ithought is
> was database based, and wouldn't be a good choice for someone who wanted
> to work with their mail through a shell account and with IMAP.
>
> Ken...
>
>
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