Re: Suggestions on choosing an IMAP server
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:05:36AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Neal Lippman said on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:28:56PM -0400:
> > The reason that I selected cyrus over courier was that it provided me
> > with the ability to use fetchmail to retrieve my email from all of my
> > pop3 mailboxes and forward the mail via lmtp into the imap store,
> > because cyrus provides an lmtp daemon; this means that I don't have to
> > run a full smtp daemon. I could not figure out whether courier does or
> > does not include the capability to recieve incoming messages via lmtp.
>
> AFAIK, courier doesn't support this... (the IMAP server certainly doesn't, and
> I'm not sure if the Courier local delivery agent supports LMTP either).
>
> Cyrus is the only open source solution I'm aware of for large mail stores, but
> I found that courier-imap-ssl was much easier to setup and maintain for the
> typical "small-medium office" setup, especially when combined with ReiserFS.
I have an office with about 50 computers, so that seems right.
I'll give courier a spin.
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