Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:59:47 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again... Message-ID: <52245383.9000907@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309020329190.6879@fledge.watson.org> References: <52210CA4.3030206@tundraware.com> <52219CBF.5070305@fjl.co.uk> <93F74BB518CE41EA9ABA43B1150B2FC1@Rivendell> <5221CE09.4050404@fjl.co.uk> <E0C280BEC27D41C4A13A765DCEF6FDC6@Rivendell> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309020329190.6879@fledge.watson.org>
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On 02/09/2013 08:41, doug wrote: > On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, Reko Turja wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- From: Frank Leonhardt >> >>> FWIW I'm using Dovecote 1 or 2 for the IMAP. In particular, Dovecot >>> 1 with Squirrelmail has been really hammered, but has never broken. >>> I sometimes get time-outs copying thousands of emails in one hit, >>> but that's fair enough and nothing has ever been lost. Could the >>> server be the problem in your case? I found the standard imapd did >>> weird things for a lot of clients, and making the switch after many >>> years of trying to blame the client software was a really good >>> decision. >> >> Running Cyrus here for ages, it might be a bit of pain to set up, but >> it's been a really bulletproof and "zero maintenance" solution. The >> problems cannot be replicated on any other client, only Squirrel has >> those problems with mail not showing up. >> >> -Reko > > We run postfix/cyrus mail servers. My experience with messages not > showing up happens with Outlook (versions 2003, 2007, and 2013), > squirrelmail, and mac mail. In all cases reported, the user can find > messages either by sorting by date or by searching on some matching > criteria. We put this in our FAQ. I have not noticed this issue with a > server using sendmail/dovecot. That's pretty much my experience too. You start off by blaming the client software until it shows up shows up on more than one platform. I used to believe that imapd, part of the base system, must be "definitive" and beyond reproach. Ha! I don't know so much about the others, but Dovecot is full of work-arounds for various IMAP clients to cope with bugs or variations from the IMAP specification. You can spend forever arguing about which interpretation of a spec is correct but I just want it to work. (Except that Microsoft is glaringly wrong). Dovecot is really easy to install, and migrate form the base system (I don't know about from Cyrus), and I wish I'd been steered towards it earlier (which is why I'm evangelising it here). Incidentally, I have no reason to believe Dovecot 2 is any less robust than Dovecot 1 - it's just that I've really hammered Dovecot 1 for several years longer than the newer version. Regards, Frank.
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