[plug] [OT] Local-user IMAP

[Cameron Patrick]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>>> Do you /really/ have to use Cyrus IMAP?  Using e.g. dovecot or
>>> courier, I believe that you could achieve what you want trivially,
>>> because they don't care if a local process starts screwing about with
>>> the Maildirs directly.  I'm pretty sure that courier also supports
>>> "shared" mailboxes which may be useful for what you want.

Craig Ringer wrote:

> Oh, but ... please don't use Courier. *shudder*. Not that uw is much 
> better.

Implying that UW is better?  Last time I used it, it didn't do locking
properly so concurrent access to a given folder could easily corrupt
mail.  Fun!

I've never had major problems with Courier IMAP or POP3.  The main
downside that I've found is that Courier is far from fast (although
still much better than UW).

> IMHO until recently Cyrus was the only decent option for an IMAP 
> server - but dovecot is apparently OK and reasonably stable now.

I'm not sure that dovecot does shared folders (which are probably
something that James wants to have).

Cameron.