is dovecot really better than uw-imapd?
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Mon Jun 21 14:09:58 UTC 2004
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:43:01AM +1000, Marc Lucke wrote:
> Marc Lucke wrote:
>
> >I'd like to query whether most agree that dovecot is better than
> >uw-imapd & whether it is going to remain a part of the Fedora/Redhat
> >projects and is therefore worthwhile sticking with? I say this
> >because I am seriously considering going back to uw-imapd. I think
> >dovecot is much slower - & without apparent reason - on 2 systems that
> >I have changed over (one an older machine running FC1 and another a
> >newer system with FC2) that ran uw-imapd a lot faster. Also I keep
> >getting a really irritating "invalid mask" error that I never got with
> >uw-imapd.
> >
> >I'm doing more research before throwing the bath water out with the baby.
> >
> >I've heard positive stuff on this list about dovecot - has anyone else
> >had my sort of problems? Anyone fixed them?
> >
> >Oh - I do access the email via from multiple machines Squirrel-mail,
> >Thunderbird & sometimes my collegue will also go in & have a look so
> >simultaneous access is possible. I know that dovecot is not designed
> >to share the mailbox (or Linux isn't - whatever) but uw-imapd never
> >seemed to have a problem.
> >
> >
> >Marc
> >
> >
> Isn't it ironic that after having sent this I upgraded dovecot and
> restarted it and now it is a lot faster? Sheesh. Jury is out now -
> I'll see what the new version does.
>
> I answer all my other email on top of the quoted message I am replying
> to because this seems to be the standard way to do things in the
> business world. Indeed I like it because you can read answers straight
> up without having to scroll. So why does everyone on this list still
> append their contirbution? Anyone know? I find it a bit annoying.
>
>
> Marc
So you can see the postings in the order that they showed up. You
don't get the answer before the question.
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