Re: [Exim] Best IMAP and POP Servers?

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Author: Avleen Vig
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Best IMAP and POP Servers?
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:17:22AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Of course the word "best" means different things to different people.
> I'm using something that works but isn't well supported and wondering
> what else is out there. Here's my situation.
>
> I'm using Washington Universities IMAP with the Virtual IMAP patch. This
> allows me to run multiple domains on a single IP address. I'm running
> about 50 virtual servers now. To make this work the entire email address
> is used for the login name - and there are multiple passwd/shadow files
> in the /etc/vhome directory. It is compatible with Linuxconf for
> management. The problem is that there's just one guy who supports the
> virtual patch and he doesn't update things very often.
>
> So - is there any other solutions out there that do something like this?
> I need virtual domains. I need to run it off 1 ip address. What are
> other people doing for multiple domains?


As others have suggested, Courier-Imap works well. Very well.
It comes with pop3 and imap daemons.
The Vexim project recommends it too. We've also use qpopper and tpop3d
for pop, and someone has recommended cyrus imap.

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Avleen Vig
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