Oden Eriksson wrote: > Buchan Milne writes: > >> Oden Eriksson wrote: >> >>> Hi list. >>> I've used courier-imap since 0.20 or something but since I found this >>> new(?) imap server a while back it got me curious. Now. I'm a >>> contributer and packager for Mandrake Linux, and I know for a fact we >>> are looking for a uw-imap drop-in replacement. courier-imap has been >>> in contribs for a while now but haven't made it into the maintree, I >>> guess because it's so strange... >> >> >> What's strange about courier? I have one production server running UW, >> which convinced me never to use it in production again, so my other >> servers run courier. >> The big issue is migrating mail which is in mbox files. That's why my >> first prodcution mail server *still* runs UW. And unfortunately that >> affects all current Maildir server. Would be nice if there were a >> mbox2maildir migration IMAP server ;-). > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mbox2maildir&btnG=Goo > gle+Search > http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapmigration
Sure, there is also imapcopy (http://www.jplanglois.com/products/imapcp/) and mb2md (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/), but one can't just dump uw while people have mail servers running it ... I must still get around to testing these, and then migrate ... And we don't like disturbing the users too much, mail server upgrade is dependant on our recently completed file server migration ... the kind of thigns you don't want to do simultaneously! > >> Also, the KDE kolab project uses cyrus ... so do we want 4 IMAP servers >> in the distro? > > > Then we won't see either kolab or cyrus-imap in mandrake because of the > cyrus-imap license? According to FM it's OSI-approved, and from reading it, it seems almost identical (except for paragraph 4 which seems to reiterate 1 and 2 but for some distribution besides source or binary?) to the modified GPL-compatible BSD: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/license.html Of course Mandrake uses the GPL-incompatibly-licensed postfix (IBM public license) as default MTA ;-) Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
