imap server comparisons

[Jason Dixon]

On Jul 22, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote:

> I'm in the process of setting up an IMAP server for my company. I'm
> using postfix and am happy with that. I googled unsuccessfully for a
> comparison of the OS IMAP servers that I know of (UW, Cyrus, Courier 
> and
> Dovecot). Does anyone have any strong opinions, pointers or advice on
> picking one of the servers?

I don't have any experience with Dovecot.  I prefer Courier based on 
the Maildir format and its ease of installation and configuration.  Of 
course, you'll find just as many people claiming the same of Cyrus.  I 
appreciate that the Courier developers have seen kindly as to allow 
easily rpm building from the source tarball.  Starting with Cyrus-SASL 
2.1.18(?), it supports the authdaemond authentication method as well.

HTH.

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Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
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