nate wrote:
Tom Allison said:I'm looking for suggestions on which of the .deb available IMAP servers might do well for scalability and security. I am planning on tying this in with a webmail interface, probably squirrelmail.I use cyrus, its quite scalable, very fast. Courier is good too I hear(no personal experience). Cyrus has a serious security bug in it at the moment, hasn't been fixed yet in debian.
cyrus sounds interesting an probably worthwhile.I have one question though that is really bothering me and I'm more than hesitant about making the switch.
I currently have procmail delivering a majority of my email into filtered mailboxes (eg: ~/debian) with only the non-filtered email being delivered to the /var/spool/mail/tallison.
Under squirrelmail I immediately created (as a default?):
~/mail/
Drafts
Sent
Trash
Which are unrelated to the IMAP directory structure I see in Mozilla.
I need to get these reconciled before I continue. I don't want to
have all my email ending up in different places... and lost...
Under cyrus, I am assuming that the ~/mail/... structure is going to be the default as it is with squirrelmail today. It would be find with me, I can move things around easily enough in the procmail files.
There is a note in the cyrus' deb:"Note: Cyrus doesn't support reading from and storing mail in your standard mail spool - it stores mail in a separate directory in its own MH-like format."
How does this impact things like /var/spool/mail/ and the procmail mail filters? Any ideas?
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