Which IMAP/POP server to choose?

[David Guntner]

Hi all,

As mentioned in my previous posting, I'm now officially giving up hope
of any getting this botched upgrade from 2010.2 to 2011 to work. Too
many errors, too many problems, too many headaches.

What is currently installed on my system for IMAP/POP3 service is the
imap-2006k package, which was available as part of the 2008 distro. For
whatever reason, that's the one that's just stayed on my system through
a couple of upgrades. It's not available now on the current 2011
version, so I might as well replace it with one of the
currently-maintained IMAP/POP3 packages.

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.

So, any thoughts/info/opinions? :-)

--Dave

[Jim Beard]

Post by David Guntner
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
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.

[David Guntner]

Post by Jim Beard
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.

Ok, I'll see what I can do to check into that. Don't currently have a
Usenet access point, so I'll look around. Thanks for that!

Post by Jim Beard
"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.

Have you *ever* seen me top post on this list? :-) I'm old school
Internet; the way I post here (for quote-and-reply, etc.) is the way I
send personal one-to-one mail, as well as how I handled Usenet postings
back in the day.

So worry not, I won't be violating any netiquette rules when I do get
around to posting there. <grin>

--Dave