Avery Day said:

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>
> Dovecot can use both mbox and maildir. I have it setup to use maildir.
> Dovecot claims to be the fastest and most secure. But I think anyone who
> is claiming to be the most secure is asking for trouble myself. It claims
> to use less memory than all of the other imap servers out there. It can
> user either virtual users or system users. I have it setup for now to use
> system users I can't justify spending 8 hours learning how to setup
> virtual users on a mail server this small. It is alot faster than uw-imap
> that is for sure.
>
> I have looked at both cyrus and courier. The complete blackbox setup that
> cyrus can do seems to be its major selling point. Courier I really liked
> the looks of and just might use inplace of dovecot unless I can find out
> if people are using dovecot in production environments.
>
> One of the last things I need to work on is the backup solution. I have
> not decided one way or the other how I am going to tackle this problem. I
> will be using tape backup for sure, but I am not sure if just using dump
> alone is enough.
>

A document I hit today might be of interest for you:
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/paper.html

have fun with it ;)

Marc.



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