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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:03:30 -0300 (ADT)
From:      User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IMAP server alternatives
Message-ID:  <20060714000047.N1799@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <44B3E271.4090700@freemail.hu>
References:  <44B3A7AA.1050600@enternet.hu> <44B3E271.4090700@freemail.hu>

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On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Nagy L=E1szl=F3 Zsolt wrote:

> Thank you for your responses!
>
> I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this order.=
 :-)
> Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it wa=
s=20
> very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for me. :-)

One thing to note here, and I've never looked into dovecot, so maybe its=20
similar, but cyrus-imapd is a black-box mail spool ... mailbox !=3D passwor=
d=20
entry, and the mail spool is *only* accessible through imap/pop3, no=20
"local mail" ... it was designed to handle systems where needing >65536=20
mailboxes was a requirement, as well as security ...

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