Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 16:18:14 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ditching POP, moving to IMAP Message-ID: <35C72635.3363DD2E@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <35C71DA2.2C302436@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > I'm looking through the docs on Cyrus, but it looks a bit "over the top" > for my small user base. Is IMAP-uw reasonably reliable once patched into > submission? If you're careful with it, maybe ... I tried 4.1 and gave up getting it to work well in the end. I wasn't too keen on people being able to change the server root in Netscape and get a listing of files in their home directory as email folders (and then trying to read them and getting the contents as a message), and I gave up trying to get it to run any other way (I was new to freebsd at the time and had a lot of learning to do very quickly so I went with what worked) - I haven't looked at 4.2 though, it may be better. Or not. After that I tried Cyrus - I had less trouble installing it and have now had it working quite happily for about a year without much fiddling. I found that Cyrus doesn't much like 8-bit data in mail headers (I used a sendmail flag, I think it was 7, to strip headers to 7-bit as it was just bouncing them otherwise). I think it looked more difficult to convert existing messages from /var/mail to Cyrus than it using imap-uw (although I think popping them with fetchmail and reposting them may have the desired effect) but this wasn't a problem here, we didn't have anything that needed keeping. HTH Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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