[SATLUG] Help needed setting up a mail server

[Brad Knowles]

On 11/29/07, Henry Pugsley wrote:

>  Maildir is the better format.

It really depends on your application and what you're trying to do. 
Myself, I much prefer Cyrus over either mbox or Maildir.

>                                 mbox can cause problems if you keep
>  messages on the server and let it get too large.  I don't think there
>  are any IMAP servers that support mbox for storage either.

UW-IMAP supports 7th-edition mbox as well as many other different 
mailbox formats, although the preferred mailbox format is "mbx", 
which is a minor variation on 7-th edition mbox.

>  Personally I like a combination of postfix and
>  courier-imap/courier-pop.  If you throw MySQL into the mix with
>  postfixadmin then you have a really quick virtual mail system that
>  does not require system users for mail.

If you're going to look at Courier, then I'd encourage you to also 
look at Dovecot.  Courier-IMAP is kind of a bastardization, with the 
IMAP server portion ripped out of the main Courier mail system (which 
also included an MTA, LDA, and many other components).  Dovecot is a 
newer and I think better-maintained package than Courier-IMAP, but 
you should look at them both before you make your decision.

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