[plug] [OT] Local-user IMAP

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Our mail imap server is now dovecot.  It wasn't that hard to setup but I 
believe it uses the current users on the system to authenticate.  e.g. 
the passwd file where as cyrus can be setup to run like a hotmail or 
webmail but separate to the users on the system.  I'm not 100% with your 
question but since cyrus was /too/ hard to setup and dovecot suited what 
we needed we installed that.   The only complaint as such of dovecot is 
the amount that it spits out into logs.

Marc

Craig Ringer wrote:

> Craig Ringer 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.
>>
>>
>> Indeed. Much as I like Cyrus, it doesn't sound like it's at all well 
>> suited to the things you want it to do.
>
>
> Oh, but ... please don't use Courier. *shudder*. Not that uw is much 
> better. IMHO until recently Cyrus was the only decent option for an 
> IMAP server - but dovecot is apparently OK and reasonably stable now.
>
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
>
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