On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 7/16/2009, Charles Sprickman (sp...@bway.net) wrote:
-Continued use of Courier-IMAP. Not so much because I like it, but I
don't want POP UUIDs changing or any big changes in IMAP quirks that
suddenly cause users grief. It seems like Courier+Maildrop is fairly
common though, so I think I'm safe there.
This is the only thing that I would recommend you reconsider.
Gladly!
Dovecot has been pretty much rock-solid for quite some time now (with a
few minor issues here and there that would only potentially affect those
who upgrade immediately following every release), and after the release
of 1.2, it is making huge strides.
It has a very good conversion utility for Courier-Dovecot that does
preserve POP UIDLs:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier
Thanks very much for that tip. My only reason for staying with Courier is
to avoid POP clients re-fetching mail due to UIDL changes.
Of course, dovecot's strongest suit is as an IMAP server, but its POP
capability should be fine too.
The best part though - it is an order of magnitude (or more) faster than
Courier... seriously. It can support far more clients on a single box
than Courier can.
I'm doing fairly well with Courier, but the bulk of our clients are POP.
I do find that large IMAP copy operations with Courier seem incredibly cpu
intensive though.
I would strongly urge you to at least do some preliminary testing before
making a final decision...
Will do.
Any other tangential information related to my initial query would be very
much appreciated.
Thanks,
Charles
Anyway, thats my .02 clad coins worth...
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Best regards,
Charles
