Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread jan gestre
On 7/11/06, Nagy László [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list but nobody answers.

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Nagy L?szl? wrote: Hello, I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list but nobody answers. I do not

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Thank you for your responses! I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this order. :-) Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it was very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this order. :-) Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it was very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for me. :-) One thing to note here, and I've never looked into dovecot, so maybe

IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Nagy László
Hello, I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list but nobody answers. I do not see answer to my question in its

IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Nagy László
Hello, I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list but nobody answers. I do not see answer to my question in its

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Reko Turja
- Original Message - From: Nagy László [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:29 PM Subject: IMAP server alternatives Hello, I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a day. Now it is up, but the pages were

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Reko Turja wrote: The downside of Cyrus is the abysmal documentation, but once you get hang of it, it's one fine IMAP/POP server. And of course there's project wiki at http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu/ which definitely is updated after 2003 :) I too can recommend cyrus-imap which I have

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread albi
Erik Norgaard wrote: Regarding cyrus documentation: I think they have stopped maintaining the documentation and moved to use the wiki - unfortunately, you don't stumble into the wiki first :( i can happily recommend Dovecot, really easy to install (Cyrus really isn't), supports both Maildir

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Nagy László [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list but nobody

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Groth
On 7/11/2006 9:29 AM, albi wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: Regarding cyrus documentation: I think they have stopped maintaining the documentation and moved to use the wiki - unfortunately, you don't stumble into the wiki first :( i can happily recommend Dovecot, really easy to install (Cyrus

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:07, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Nagy László [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP folders between users? dovecot -- early stages of

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Ron Wilhoite
On 7/11/2006 11:18 AM, Greg Groth wrote: On 7/11/2006 9:29 AM, albi wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: I would like to ask a couple more in depth questions pertaining to this conversation. We recently switched from POP3 Outlook Express to IMAP using IMAP-UW Thunderbird. Personally I have had

Migrating from mbox to maildir (was Re: IMAP server alternatives)

2006-07-11 Thread Javier Henderson
I saw a dramatic improvement in speed with both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail after switching from mbox to maildir. How did you handle the transition from mbox to maildir? -jav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Pete Slagle
Nagy László wrote: Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP folders between users? I was a satisfied courier-imap user for several years. A few months ago I switched to dovecot because it is

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Thank you for your responses! I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this order. :-) Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it was very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for me. :-) Thanks again. Laszlo

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Pete Slagle wrote: Nagy László wrote: Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP folders between users? I was a satisfied courier-imap user for several years. A few months ago I switched to

Re: Migrating from mbox to maildir (was Re: IMAP server alternatives)

2006-07-11 Thread Josef Grosch
Javier Henderson wrote: I saw a dramatic improvement in speed with both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail after switching from mbox to maildir. How did you handle the transition from mbox to maildir? -jav I just moved one of our mail servers over to postfix and dovecot using maildir. There is

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Nagy László
It seems that dovecot wins the votes - but does it support virtual domains? I think it does not, but I do not need it. I can use postfix and mydestination, virtual_maps. This is enough for me. Any tips on migration? Yes, it looks easy. I created these namespaces in dovecot.conf:

Re: Migrating from mbox to maildir (was Re: IMAP server alternatives)

2006-07-11 Thread Ron Wilhoite
On 7/11/2006 12:20 PM, Javier Henderson wrote: I saw a dramatic improvement in speed with both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail after switching from mbox to maildir. How did you handle the transition from mbox to maildir? -jav For my POP users, I didn't. I leave everyone's 'inbox' in /var/mail

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: It seems that dovecot wins the votes - but does it support virtual domains? Any tips on migration? That all depends on how you store your user data. It is not dovecot or courier issue. I have both courier and dovecot working in