* Tom Allison (tallison1@twmi.rr.com) [020430 03:24]: > My biggest problem now is that the imap installation and qmail are > having a fight. I am unable, through mozilla, to delete (move to > trash) email or create new folders. I'm a little hesitant to dive > into it much right now since it fried my mozilla installation and I > had to do it all over again. > > But first, I really should install something like pine to attempt to > isolate the problems/interactions between qmail/imap/mozilla. you mean mutt ;) Also, for diagnostics, try ethereal. It makes it very easy to pick out and follow individual TCP streams, and can even understand and interpret many of the higher-level protocols. (I'm not sure about IMAP, but I'm guessing it probably can.) > I am looking for suggestions on what imap daemon might be best. I > don't need much. ssl would be very nice, but not required. My > biggest concerns are security (always) and qmail (~/Maildir) > compatability. An alternative to Maildir would be to pipe everything > from qmail into procmail as someone suggested. I can't speak from a code-review perspective, but cyrus has been pretty nice on a mail server I just set up. I like not creating user accounts for the mail users; the only user account on that machine is mine, so I have little fear of someone cracking a bad password on a user account and stealing a shell. The disadvantage in your case will be that it works with its own mailbox format, not existing Maildirs. I'm not sure if that's a "dealbreaker" requirement for you - when my mail users don't have shell access anyway, it doesn't really matter that much what the underlying store format is (so long as it's fairly resistant to corruption; I'm still scared of mbox =) good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume.shtml
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