Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > We all know that the standard IMAPD is really too slow. I am planning on > switching to something more effective. Reading webmail and such is quite a > painstaking process with anything more then 30 messages in a folder. > > Should I choose cyrus or courier? Or neither? > I've had good luck with Cyrus so far. It does some indexing on its directories to try to speed things up. And if the indexes get messed up, you can use the 'reconstruct' utility to, well, reconstruct them.
Your MDA needs to 'cyrdeliver' the mail to Cyrus, since nothing can really write to Cyrus' directories in the way it likes. It appears to interoperate pretty well with Netscape Messenger, which is what I was after. Hope that helps.