Re: IMAP Mail server question
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:25:13AM +0000, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote:
> > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles
> > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go
> > with.
>
> There's really very little difference. Dovecot is supposedly a little
> faster, but if you reached the point where that becomes an issue you
> need to look at cyrus anyway.
>
> Haven't done Dovecot on Debian (do it all the time on RHEL tho). For
> Courier, just apt-get install courier-imap (I think that's the package
> name). There's nothing to configure unless you want to use virtual
> users/domains and/or ldap/mysq. Plenty of good documentation about that
> on the web.
There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by
hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using
the -f switch of maildirmake. Believe me, it can save you lots of grief.
Otherwise courier-imap-ssl works out of the box.
--
Chris.
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Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to
etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once
etch goes stable.
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