Re: IMAPd on openbSD 3.5 (wich one?)

[Per-Olov Sjöholm <openbsd_misc@incedo.org>]

rembrandt said:
> I've little problems to chose an imapD for my openBSD-box.
> I think I'll take the Cyrus IMAP Server couse I found a usefull howto
> for that.
>
> http://my.abstrakt.ch/blog/archives/000001.php
>
> But are there other imapDs outside? Not courier, not imap-wu?
> And is it smart to install the imapD as package or from the ports?
> Both (courier/imap-wu) seams outdated.
>
> After a look in the ports I found just the sasl2-parts of cyrus
> in security/cyrus-sasl2 but I did't found a server in the ports.
> This situation makes me a littlebit confuse so I hope somebody could
> help me to chose one imapD. ;)
>
>

Hi !

I now use the Dovecot imap server ! I have searched the net and found that
this is the best (for my needs).


Do you have Maildir or Mbox mailboxes ? I think Courier only supports
Maildir, Uw-imap only mbox and Dovecot both formats. But I am not 100%
sure here.

I have been using Uw-imap for a long time. It sucks, but is probably the
easiest imap server to install.It is also very stable. Dovecot is a very
fast and robust imap server with many features like TREAD, SORT indexing
and much much more. I really like the Dovecot developers way of thinking
security.
If you have many mails in the mailbox Dovecot is really great with its low
memory footprint and mail indexing. Uw-imap is a really bad choice for
huge mailboxes. With Uw-imap you can't have two sessions at the same time
at the same mailbox. But Dovecot handles this.

I have not tried Courier as I deliver my local mail with sendmail (in mbox
format) that can't deliver to Maildir format that Courier uses.


If you try Dovecot, then use the port that come with OpenBSD as an
Indexing bug should be fixed there.

/Per-Olov