[plug] procmail

[Trent Lloyd]

imc urrently using uw--imapd
i couldnt get cyrus to work
courier works too
dovecot is also good

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:16:07PM +0800, Michael Hunt wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 20:03, William Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > My opinion of cyrus imap is a little different.  
> > 
> > I read the same mailbox at home and work using evolution on both
> > machines (and sometimes IE, or squirrelmail when elsewhere.  The *^&&*%&
> > thing keeps forgetting if a mail gets deleted in one client, it should
> > stay deleted and not come back when opening the other client!  Its
> > probably mostly evolutions fault as IE, pine and and squirrelmails ok -
> > but cyrus imap is partly to blame as my work mailbox doesnt exhibit
> > these symptoms.  One day it'll annoy me enough to change back to UW-imap
> > (or better yet, try another one).  
> 
> I like cyrus IMAP and have been using it for well on 5 years. Everytime
> I try UW-IMAP it breaks on me and I end up going back to cyrus. I
> haven't tried some of the other imap servers and just taking a look at
> imap servers in unstable (debian) there a quite a few I haven't heard
> about before and sound quite interesting.
> 
> <snipped from aptitiude package list>
> 
> bincimap - IMAP server for Maildir depositories
> courier-imap - Courier Mail Server - IMAP daemon
> cyrus-imapd - CMU Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
> cyrus21-imapd - Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
> dovecot-imapd - A secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir
> mailboxes
> mailutils-imap4d - GNU Mailutils-based IMAP4 Daemon
> uw-imapd - remote mail folder access server
> 
> I plan with my next server upgrade (hopefully arounf Christmas time when
> I am on holidays and have time to do it - and when Sarge comes out if
> ever) to give some of the different IMAP servers a test and put them
> through there paces and see how they compare to my current situation.
> 
> Another intersting package I stumbled upon is offlineimap which might
> just solve the problen you are having. Personally I haven't used it but
> it looks interesting.
> 
> Package: offlineimap
> Priority: optional
> Section: mail
> Installed-Size: 564
> Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 4.0.0
> Depends: python2.2
> Suggests: python2.2-tk
> Filename: pool/main/o/offlineimap/offlineimap_4.0.0_all.deb
> Size: 183914
> MD5sum: b60d7ff28fe852edccb1855b5f133602
> Description: IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support
>  OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading.  With
>  OfflimeIMAP, you can:
>  .
>   * Read the same mailbox from multiple computers, and have your
>     changes (deletions, etc.) be automatically reflected on
>     all computers
>  .
>   * Use various mail clients to read a single mail box
>  .
>   * Read mail while offline (on a laptop) and have all changes
>     synchronized when you get connected again
>  .
>   * Read IMAP mail with mail readers that do not support IMAP
>  .
>   * Use SSL (secure connections) to read IMAP mail even if your reader
>     doesn't support SSL
>  .
>   * Synchronize your mail using a completely safe and fault-tolerant
>     algorithm.  (At least I think it is!)
>  .
>   * Customize which mailboxes to synchronize with regular expressions
>     or lists.
>  .
>   * Synchronize your mail two to four times faster than with other tools
>     or other mail readers' internal IMAP support.
>  .
>  In short, OfflineIMAP is a tool to let you read mail how YOU want to.
> 
> > Then there's also the refusal to behave when a header, subject or sender
> > has some > chr(200) - not sure which ones, its probably unicode as its
> > usually of asian/balkans origin - so I have to trawl the mailbox (perl
> > of course!) and delete the offender before being able to access the
> > mail.  This ones serious, as Murhpy generally makes it happen after a
> > holiday when I have a few thousand emails ....  Yet strangely, the same
> > characters in the message body are ignored.
> 
> Haven't seen anything like that here. Generally I keep my inbox pretty
> well clear by filling away mail in other folders and I make sure I
> expunge mail that I delete and don't just hide it. (Ctrl-E in
> evolution). At anyone time my inbox has only a handful of mail meesages
> in it and these are usually about things I have to do or reply to.
> 
> > BillK
> 
> Michael Hunt
> 
> 
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