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Old 12-30-2006, 03:03 PM   #1
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IMAP for POSTFIX


Hi all!
Let me first take this opportunity to introduce myself to you great guyz who dedicate tyme and energy to keep the Linux knowledge base growing by your much valued contributions.
Am working hard to find a stepping in linux of which am at discovering and experimental stage.

Recently av been trying to setup a mail server using postfix and though there are still a few hitches here and there I would like to know the best IMAP/POP3 server to implement between Cyrus,Courier,UW and Dovecot.Any assistance on howto with any best option will be highly appreciated.
Am currently running on a Fedore Core 5 System.
 
Old 12-30-2006, 03:22 PM   #2
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I used Dovecot and found the configuration file so well documented that I didn't need to read anything else. Of course, that was on OpenBSD so some of the documentation may have been added by the Ports maintainer.
 
Old 12-30-2006, 03:37 PM   #3
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Dovecot all the way
 
Old 12-31-2006, 11:03 AM   #4
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i'll make it a triple then... i have been using courier-imap for a while, and on rebuilding a server tried dovecot instead, so much simpler and never found any annoying niggles that i did with some MUA's like thunderbird that i did have with courier.
 
Old 12-31-2006, 11:07 AM   #5
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and again dovecot is so nice because you want imaps you just uncomment some stuff and you have it. oooo yes

I am a big fan of it
 
Old 12-31-2006, 01:44 PM   #6
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Thanks u al' for that.Let me have a take on dovecot and see what happens.Incase I get stuck al call on you!
 
Old 03-05-2007, 05:02 AM   #7
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Though this may be a bit late, I use cyrus and it does what I want.
 
  


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