Re: Which IMAP/POP server to choose?

> 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? :-)

Hi David,

I'm just about to unsub from this list as I've mostly moved to Linux 
Mint but I thought I'd answer your question. I tried the above two but 
ended up installing Dovecot as an IMAP server a few years ago. I chose 
Dovecot as the online documentation was excellent and it was relatively 
easy to install and configure. (I set it up to store users' mails in 
their home directory and to use secure password authentication with 
access over SSL).

There was a Mandriva supported RPM available until two years ago and I'd 
imagine they still support it.

> 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.

Dovecot's LDA can deliver mail messages to either location and store 
messages in either the mbox or Maildir format though I'm not sure if it 
can be configured on a per user basis. See 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation

Hope this helps,
Anthony