Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:58:33 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Nagy =?iso-8859-1?q?L=E1szl=F3=5C?="" <nagylzs@enternet.hu>"@ns1.jnielsen.net, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Subject: Re: IMAP server alternatives Message-ID: <200607111158.33989.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20060711110756.ed476751.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <44B3A7AA.1050600@enternet.hu> <20060711110756.ed476751.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:07, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Nagy L=E1szl=F3" <nagylzs@enternet.hu>: > > Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. > > working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP > > folders between users? > > > dovecot -- early stages of development, can I trust in this? > > I've been using Dovecot on various production servers since it was in > beta. I highly recommend it. On Tuesday 11 July 2006 10:29, albi wrote: > i can happily recommend Dovecot, really easy to install (Cyrus really > isn't), supports both Maildir and mbox, been using it for years without > any problems (i used courier before that, but i like dovecot much better) > > see here : http://www.dovecot.org and > http://wiki.dovecot.org/ I second (third?) both of the above. I switched my main production mail ser= ver=20 from imap-uw to dovecot about a year ago and have been much happier since. = It=20 is very stable, and handles large folders and concurrent connections to the= =20 same account very smoothly (both things I had issues with using imap-uw). I= =20 think that dovecot's "betas" are like other products' "release=20 candidates"--I've never had the sense that I'm using beta software. It also supports shared folders, although I haven't had a need to experimen= t=20 with that. JN
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