Dovecot IMAP Update

[Rick Stevens]

karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> I installed Dovecot on both email servers I administer. The Outlook users
> who have IMAP accounts have noticed a significant improvement. One user,
> with over 300 folders, some which have 4 - 5 thousand emails each (don't
> ask; I don't want to know) told me that the difference in checking email
> (Outlook checks every folder for new mail) is awesome. I asked how much
> faster and was told "Well before I could get up and walk around while it
> checked email, so I never knew how long it really took. Now it happens as
> fast as it did when I first started doing email and only had a few
> folders."
> 
> Cool and easy this was.
> 
> In Squirrelmail, I had to remove the root folder entry. Dovecot sends
> mail/ automagically for me. That's made setting up new accounts very easy.
> But, it took a bit to figure it out first.
> 
> Pine also continues to work flawlessly for those users.
> 
> Overall, Dovecot has been a very nice find for me.
> 
> Thanks to all for making that recommendation. With servers of the size I
> manage, I doubt I'll ever need Cyrus, but thanks for letting me know about
> that one, too.

Well done, Karl!  Now, if we could just get you to move up to FC...

Heheheheh! :-)
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