Re: standalone imap servers

[Bruno Saverio Delbono <bruno_(_dot_)_delbono_(_at_)_wf0_(_dot_)_com>]

At 09:41 AM 11/16/2002 -0800, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting Telent (telent_(_at_)_mordac_(_dot_)_info):
> ...
> > I'm looking for a standalone imap server that (preferably) builds on
> > OpenBSD without tweaking.  courier uses maildir, which is no good.
> > uw-imap runs exclusively through inetd.  cyrus is designed for use on
> > sealed systems, and this is most emphatically not one.
> >
> > Aside from those "big three", can anyone give me some recommendations?
>
> Define "stand-alone" please.
>
> Cyrus is just lovely. You deliver to it, you use IMAP to get from
> it.  No unix users - just mail users.  How more standalone is there?

I agree. I am more in favor of courier. Believe it or not, maildir via imap 
is blazingly faster than with /var/spool mbox type of delivery. See 
http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/

PS - Why is maildir no good?

> As far as UW, it may not scale as well as cyrus, it requires mail
> users to be unix users, but you can find plenty of wrappers to serve
> it instead of inetd.

wu-imap is ugly slow beast which takes up immense amount of memory. I have 
about 10,000 messages in one mailbox. With courier it takes less than an 
minute to scan them. With wu-imap...well lets not go there...


> Me?  I use Sendmail (Inc)'s IMAP server which is cyrus with performance
> tweaks and a GUI.

Is this commercial?

-Bruno

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