[CentOS] Which imapd?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 16:33:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 04:40, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > 
> > Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and 
> > maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard performance 
> > requirements.
> 
> If you want something easy - use dovecot. yum install it and it just 
> works out of the box with very little config required. If you want 
> something with a great feature set, excellent performance and near zero 
> admin - try Cyrus-Imapd. And in relative terms its much much easier to 
> setup than Courier, considering its just a straight yum install.

And for something slightly in-between, use dovecot, but tweak it
and your mail delivery agent to use maildir format (procmail
already knows how).  You'll get better performance manipulating
large inboxes that way.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com





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