Re: [hosers-talk] imap servers?

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> > There seem to be a couple imap servers for linux. Is there a clear 
> > favorite? Can anyone recommend one?
> 
> I use Dovecot on charybdis, but it's just serving POP3S; I have the IMAP part
> turned off. I can say that configuration is not difficult. IMAP is on by
> default, so unless you had unusual requirements it would likely work out of
> the box.
> 
> Also, Dovecot is a standard part of Fedora, so you know that it's widely
> used and enough people care whether it works that serious problems are likely
> to be fixed promptly.


As lame as webmail normally is, it would still be very nice to have. I 
love nmh, but it sucks for attachments. If someone sends me a picture, I 
usually just forward it on to my yahoo account to look at it, rather than 
doing an mhstore and scp'ing the picture around. Webmail is good with 
attachments. And sometimes a good ssh client just isn't available. 
Finally, I can set up an email server with webmail and let newbies (read: 
Erin) use it, while maintaining full control over the data.

So, cool. I will check out Dovecot. Worse comes to worst, I can maybe 
source all mail from the imap server and use nmh as only a dumb front end.

I really wish nmh development wasn't stuck in the stone age. The project 
seems to have been killed, more or less, by the savannah attack last year. 
It's a good example of how baroque software turns to rubble; they had to 
emulate all the stupid little "features" of mh, and now they've got an 
albatross of a codebase.


Jon
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