Re: IMAPd on openbSD 3.5 (wich one?)

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

rembrandt said:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004 10:16:08 +0200 (CEST)
> openbsd_misc@incedo.org (Per-Olov Sjöholm) wrote:
>
>> 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 Both (courier/imap-wu) seams outdated.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
>
> I use the mbox-Format and sendmail as MTA.
> Is there a port for the DoveCot-ImapD (inofficial)?
>
> I just found Imap-Server wich are using the MailDir-Format and the ImapD
> from UW use mbox (I think so).
> So it will be great if the imapD can handle mbox. :-)
>
>



Dovecot can handle both.

Also... As another person said in this tread, you can change the local
mailer for sendmail and not use the std local mailer for local delivery to
mailboxes, and then have another format than mbox. By searching google you
can also find threads regarding patches to the std local mailer so that it
can handle maildir format. I do not however know anything about that.


/Per-Olov