On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Timo Schoeler wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:06:57 -0700
Bryan Vyhmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for that tip. Unfortunately, it was with a server that did
not support server-side sorting. The server was EIMS (http://
www.eudora.co.nz), a mail server that runs on Mac OS X.
I know it; I worked for an ISP looong ago (mid 90s to 2003) which used
Macs as one of two platforms (the other was, obviously, Sun ;).
However, I discarded Apple in 2005 after another bad move they made,
but hey, not ranting ;)
EIMS is still a nice server in many ways and I would love to use it
if it had THREAD and SORT. It also lacks the flexibility that a
system based on dovecot and postfix/qmail has.
I have been
evaluating it as a possible option in addition to dovecot and other
choices. Its lack of support for THREAD and SORT bothers me a
little. I need to just bite the bullet and use dovecot with
postfix/qmail/ sendmail and run everything off of LDAP.
Bryan
After that much noise about dovecot, at least I'll have a look at it;
cyrus is hard to beat, though. I did run a not-so-small user base
on it
on really weak hardware, and it performed very very well. I even
ran it
so serve an art gallery (about 25 to 30 IMAP users) on an Amiga 1200
with 68040 Turbo board and 128MByte RAM. It was running NetBSD,
because
this was my main platform back then (and OpenBSD discarded this port
with 3.2, IIRC).
Luckily, things have changed :)
My main server now runs CommuniGate Pro. A smaller one runs EIMS. In
the past I have run qmail with courier-imapd, postfix with courier-
imapd, postfix with dovecot, and I think sendmail or postfix with
cyrus. They all worked pretty well. Aside from CommuniGate Pro, I
have not run any of these for the ISP's main usage. I am very ready
to move off. I am always intrigued by small systems. I am tempted to
setup a Soekris net4801 running on Compact Flash with dovecot and
postfix just to see how well it would work. Obviously, it would only
be a silly exercise for anything production ready but it would be
interesting.
Bryan
