RE: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?
I've been using QPopper for many years now without any problems to speak
of. Once installed, you can forget its even there since its very well
behaved. Debian includes an older v2.53, so you may want to check
ftp.qualcomm.com and download v3.0.2 and compile/install.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brendan J Simon [mailto:brendan.simon@ctam.com.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:04 AM
> > To: debian-user; debian-powerpc
> > Subject: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?
> >
> >
> > I need to install some IMAP and POP3 servers so users can read mail via
> > Netscape/Outlook on other machines. I have exim as my mail server. I'm
> > running Debian Potato on a PowerMac G4.
> >
> > The choice (according to "apt-get -s install imap-server") of available
> > imap servers is:
> > imap 4.7c-1
>
> Outlook 2k crashes when told to use this server. :(
>
> > courier-imap 0.31-1
>
> I haven't tried it much, really, because it doesn't support /var/spool/mail
> and I don't see why I should convert to Maildirs.
>
> > The choice (according to "apt-get -s install pop3-server") of available
> > pop3 servers is:
> > cucipop 1.31-13
> > qpopper 2.53-5
>
> I use qpopper, which is quite install & forget, but then, you might need
> something more elaborate.
>
> > ipopd 4.7c-1
> >
> > Does anyone have any preferences, suggestions or comments regarding
> > these packages. I thought I would install "imap" and "ipopd". Are
> > these ok or are there better packages ? qpopper sounds interesting.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice,
> > Brendan Simon.
>
> I've got to add a question of my own here:
>
> Is there an imap server that can store mails and directories in a directory
> and gets along with Outlook? (./configure --enable-endure-o2k)
>
> As I said, I tried (UW) imap, which needs a '/' added to a dir name if
> it should contain other dirs. Outlook doesn't know this, it seems, so
> any recursive copying will fail.
>
> Thanks
>
> Christian
>
>
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