webmail in FC3

[Rick Stevens]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, William Hooper wrote:
> 
>>
>> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>>
>>> Am Mi, den 06.07.2005 schrieb Marcos-Fedora Brazil um 15:02:
>>>
>>>
>>>> What is a good webmail (pop3) to use in FC3 with dovecot ?
>>>>
> 
> in our recent surveys of webmail frontends... there are no good pop3 
> webmail frontends...
> 
> maintaining two different stores for mail (the spool, and the pop3 mail 
> storage) is a little wasteful, and less easy to scale than imap or 
> something like sqwebmail which manipulates maildir's directly.

Cyrus does use maildirs.  If you revert to using c-client-based mail
servers (such as Crispin's stuff), then you use a single mailbox ("MBOX"
for imap, the normal maildrop for pop3) and there's no reason to have
two separate mail structures:

	$HOME/mail/mbox    <--- imap MBOX and pop3 maildrop
	$HOME/mail/Sent    <--- imap folder
	$HOME/mail/Trash   <--- imap folder

I run a mail system with over 60K users and that's how I have it set
up.  Works fine.  They can use pop, imap, or webmail (we use IMP, but
squirrelmail works fine too, since they're both just PHP-powered web
front ends to the IMAP protocol).
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