[plug] Mail Server thoughts

[Ryan]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:14 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> Ok, another email about this server I'm building.
> Basically I'm going to have fetchmail with and IMAP server.
> I was thinking of using dovecot as I've used it before and like it.
> I'm not sure what MTA I'll use yet as Ubuntu comes with postfix but
> I've used exim4 before.
> I want the users mail to be stored in a Maildir in their home directory.
> For my home directory (not the others) it will be mounted over NFS
> from my workstation which has the bigger disks. So what I want is for
> the mail to not be delievered directly into the maildir, but for it to
> somehow get from the MTA into the Maildir when it is avaliable. From
> memory when I had exim set up before, the mail went through procmail
> then into the Maildir, is there anyway though that I can leave it in
> the spool and have it go through procmail and into the Maildir later?

re: IMAPd (on Debian)

As someone who was scared of courier IMAP due to the reports of
configuration complexity and ill-documentation, I was pleasantly
surprised at the ease of installation and config for a standard user
setup (not tuning it heavily or getting crafty with auth methods).  

I found dovecot just as easy to install and setup but it was lacking in
folder management for my requirements.

As for the rest, I use sendmail, so I'll stay out of it :)

Ryan
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