Dovecot IMAP Update

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

> 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...

I have FC4 installed on a dual-homed PC. I've been having trouble with it
hanging for 'no apparent reason' and haven't gotten to the bottom of that.
I'll be using it as my new server when I get a handle on it better.

Karl

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