"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > >Personally I'm all for courier-imap. IMAP and POP3, Maildirs, SSL, and > >the ability to access both real and virtual mailboxes. > > See my other recent message about the security implications of running > courier-imap. Also, maildirs are a mediocre idea for general use, and a > horrible idea for high volume mail spools. The whole idea behind IMAP > is for the mail to reside on the mail server, not a user's workstation. > Maildirs eat inodes like nobody's business. If you're using FFS to host > a fairly high traffic mail spool you'll probably need to newfs your > filesystem with a /ton/ of inodes. The only solution is to use a > filesystem which dynamically allocates inodes like XFS. Cyrus uses a > much more efficient storage mechanism.
That's exactly where the difficulties come from. Cyrus is a royal PITA to convince to run on a machine that also has shells. For instance: in my case my local mail provider doesn't support IMAP (and their mailserver is quite a long way away from me and behind some rather laggy and slow pipes). I wanted to be able to run Sylpheed when I'm on the X console and pine when I'm remotely logged in. The only option (given that they use different mail formats) seemed to be to dump all of my mail into a local IMAP server (it's not a ton of mail either) so both programs could see it. While the uw-imap can do this with a bit of prodding (you have to change a variable in a dependancy to get it to no spew your imap directories all throughout your home directory), it works OK. I originally tried Cyrus IMAP (because it was supposedly better), but nearly pulled my head off trying to get all of the authentication/permission/configuration/login/etc issues worked out. I never actually did successfully create a subdirectory on the Cyrus server, and after poring over the tons of not-very-helpful docs, I eventually gave up and went to the uw solution. UW might not be the best technically, but I wasn't going to have to spend 6 weeks learning the intricacies of the permissions system on my IMAP server to get it working. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
