[CentOS] imap pop3 servers

Tue Feb 6 12:06:39 UTC 2007
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

Black Hand wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 10:40:21 am Doc Schneider wrote:
>
>   
>> Is there some place I can get uw's imap or do I need to settle for using
>> something like Dovecot? (Which doesn't support procmail AFAICT)
>>     
>
> i normally prefer to migrate to cyrus instead than dovecot. The problems that 
> i will not have in migration i will have in production.
>
> Now, in two productions systems, migrated from CentOS3/RHEL3 to CentOS4, we
> copy all mbox files and the files in the $HOME directory files that use 
> uwimap, and did use the uwimap packages fron CentOS3 inside CentOS 4. We only 
> need to install the gcc compatibility package, and manually install the 
> uwimap rpms. One system is running more than a year and without problems (the 
> migration to cyrus was retarded because the system is working too well) the 
> other system was migrated to cyrus a month ago, but in the eight months in 
> operations works flawlessly
>   

I would be interested in hearing what those problems were.  We've been 
using Dovecot without incident.  It is my understanding that the UW imap 
stuff isn't as well supported anymore which is why we migrated to 
Dovecot a year or so ago.

Cheers,