poll: best pop3 and imap servers?

[Federico Voges]

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:33:53 -0400, Douglas J Hunley wrote:

>subject about says it all. what pop3 and imap servers does everyone prefer? 
>and why? thanks

If your MTA is qmail, then use Courier IMAP (I'm using qmail + Couriel
+ vpopmail on my hosting server).

If your MTA is anything else, use Cyrus IMAP. Although it's somewhat
more complicated to setup compared to Courier, it has several
advantages: 
builtin support for newsgroups, 
server side mail filtering with remote admin (sieve), 
many auth methods (SQL, LDAP, PAM, sasldb2, etc)
really scalable (it even has builtin support for partitioned servers
using an agregator)
stand alone server (works somewhat similar to postfix)
no need to system accound for each mail user

I'm using it on some servers. AFAIK most comercial products based on
OSS also use Cyrus (ie Bynari Insight server, SCOoffice Mail Server and
I think SuSE OpenExchange).

Bye!
Federico Voges
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