Re: moving mail to imap
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote:
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> It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which
> is quite hard to istall and to configure.
I have cyrus server running for personal use, and I am by no means an
admin. One of the bigger differences between running Cyrus and other
servers is that Cyrus authentication doesn't require a user to have a
shell account on the server.
My biggest hurdle was understanding how to configure the authentication
to the server. Other than that, installation was a breeze. I use
squirrelmail for webmail, and a plugin is available that lets users
change their passwords, which is really handy.
> In most cases Courier is enough and scales well (I know someone running
> ~8000 Users with Courier).
I have heard a lot of good things about Courier.
> Cyrus stores it's mails in a cryptic database format whereas Courier uses
> an enhanced version of Qmail's Maildir concept.
This is true, but not necessarily evil. I moved my email folders from
one machine to another, and the instructions were simple.
Then again, there is only one user on my setup.
-Andy
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