poll: best pop3 and imap servers?

[Matthew Carpenter]

That's a toughy and requires some opinion.

Currently, I prefer either UW IMAP or Courier, since they use standard Maildir
mail files which allow you to un-f$#@ things if something gets dorked up.  UW
is my favorite for small implementations at the moment because it is simple
yet powerful.

Cyrus IMAP is supposed to be great for large implementations.  It is supposed
to be optimized and fast, it integrates with LDAP and keeps messages more
secure in it's own mail-store.  Unfortunately I have not found a good way to
make the Cyrus Mail-store as easy to manage as the other two.  There are a lot
of configurable options, but it's quite complex.  The mailfiles are not easily
maintained, and if you wish to back up someone's mail file individually, good
luck.  Mail is delivered using the Cyrus tool "deliver" which can be called
from procmail or Postfix (or Sendmail).  However, SuSE has chosen to couple
Cyrus IMAP and Postfix for their SuSE Linux Openexchange Server (SLOX).  It
has been a real learning experience for me.  As you can see, I'm not quite
sure what to think of Cyrus yet... Perhaps with some time to play I could grow
to like Cyrus-IMAP.  It tastes a lot like GroupWise, which I enjoyed
administering.

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:33:53 -0400
Douglas J Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:

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