Re: Which IMAP/POP server to choose?

On 10/26/2011 12:30 PM, David Guntner wrote:

> I'm looking over my local copies of the mirror that I was using for the
> upgrade (to speed the process by not needing to download that much
> stuff), and I see there are two IMAP packages being provided:
>
> courier-imap
> cyrus-imapd
>
> Which one should I pick?  If any of you remember the 2008 ML imap-2006k
> package, which one of the above does it most behave like?  Or does it
> even matter - IMAP is IMAP? :-)
>
> If it helps, while users do store their own mail folders in their
> $HOME/Mail directory, there is still /var/spool/mail where user inboxes
> are located.  So if only one of the above supports both $HOME/Mail&
> /var/spool/mail, that would be the one I'd want to be using.

I cannot help with IMAP, but there are a few sysadmins at
alt.os.linux.mandriva
and one or more of them is likely to be able to answer such 
questions.  "Do not top-post."  Some of these guys monitor 30 or 
40 newsgroups, and they like to be able go back as far as needed 
and then read to the bottom when addressing a problem. 
Interspersed commentary is ok, as long as it does not interfere 
with problem analysis.

Cheers!

jim b.

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