On 12.10.2003, at 10:42, Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad wrote:
>> Get rid of it and install cyrus or courier imap.
>
> which one is best? fastest and smallest use of memory?
i can recommend cyrus. but only if you're willing to accept a steep
learning curve. after that it's smooth sailing - i've never looked
back! the tricky bit (for me) has always been getting authentication
working (i uses sasldb)
other than performance and stability there are other key benefits:
a) only on system user (cyrus) needed: all mailusers exist only within
cyrus, so even a system with many, many users will still be manageable.
this also makes for easy backups: the entire /var/spool/imap folder is
owned by cyrus. so getting a backup working at a new (replacement)
machine doesn't mean adding all those users to the system again.
b) sieve! i don't know what to do without it, anymore. server-side
filtering of messages is a godsend ;-)
if you're using freebsd, you might want to check out the relevant
chapter in my cookbook[1]
hth,
tom
[1]
http://tomster.org/geek/freebsdcookbook/ar01s03.html
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tom lazar <tom@???>
