I had been some what back burner considering the switch for many years. First started when I was looking for a solution that worked with maildir and nfs. I think I was running UW-IMAP before Courier, can't really recall. No clue what provoked the switch, I am going with I just felt like it :)
The switch was painless and straight forward. Dovecot seems to be using less resources, and might be performing better. I wasn't really leaving courier for performance reasons. Though I had long heard and read that Dovecot was faster, lighter weight, etc. Biggest difference to me was a single config file vs many, same when invoking Dovecot. Before with Courier, at least on Gentoo, had to start each, imap, pop, imaps, pops, and the first one would start the courier authdaemon. Basically 5 init scripts and multiple config files, vs the one config file and one init script for Dovecot. >From going through the config file, Dovecot does seem rather feature rich with things not easily done in Courier, if at all. I am rather pleased all around. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
