Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:09 +0100, mouss wrote:
>
>> Craig White wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 22:46 +0100, mouss wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> well, the opportune time to switch is probably when you are starting to
>>>>> set up a new mail server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dovecot is mostly featureless POP3/IMAP
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Come on. is it holy war time again? should I shoot over cyrus software
>>>> now or should we keep this list clean? If you like cryus software, I am
>>>> happy for you. If you've done a an serious/objective comparative study,
>>>> put it a on a web page (and ask for comments). Debating this here is not
>>>> constructive nor fair.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ----
>>> why is it not constructive?
>>>
>> because expereience shows that such debates should be conducted offlist,
>> quietly and with arguments. Otherwise, proponents of each side jump on
>> the wagon at every opportunity to reply to what they feel is an attack
>> against their "baby". you know the story, so I won't annoy you by
>> repeating it.
>>
>> anyway, for it to be constructive, it should start on the right track.
>> calling dovecot featureless and listing features that are actually
>> supported by dovecot isn't a good start :)
>>
> ----
> probably not, but it seemed fair once I got into cyrus-imapd and saw all
> of the bonus options that I never had in uw-imapd. I suppose that
> dovecot has virtual user features (without maildir)
with and without. dovecot supports multiple mailbox formats.
> and LDAP support and
> you could probably shell script some of the other stuff to get around
> the lack of built-in support.
>
It supports sieve, quota, spam filtering, ... dovecot has a plugin
mechanism which helps provide additionnal functionality if needed.
> ----
>
>>> Aren't dovecot and cyrus-imapd the only
>>> pop3/imap servers bundled with CentOS? Would not users of CentOS benefit
>>> from the discussion?
>>>
>>>
>> courier is another choice.
>>
> ----
> courier isn't included in upstream or CentOS
>
I have no idea why...
anyway, if you have a "development server", it's not a problem. see
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-courier-imap-courier-authlib-maildrop-fedora-redhat-centos
for example.