[ale] best imap options

Kevin O'Neill Stoll kevinostoll at yahoo.com
Wed May 1 15:40:01 EDT 2002


It would be interesting to me to find out which IMAP sever Yahoo uses. I'm
sure it is highly customized but I would be a little suprised to hear that
they had developed their own "home grown" IMAP server.

--- Charles Marcus <CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I've heard *many* negative things (speed, security, security, speed,
> etc)
> about UW IMAP, but have never used it myself, so take that for what its
> worth.
> 
> I have heard that Cyrus is the most secure (could be just opinion), but
> that
> Courier and Cyrus are the only way to go for an IMAP server.
> 
> I have been using Cyrus for some time, and to be honest - have had some
> problems with it.  I've been thinking of trying Courier.
> 
> Charles
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:13 AM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] best imap options
> >
> >
> > I'm working on getting an imap server setup on a p133 32MB
> > machine.  I'm
> > currently running the stock UW imap server that ships with
> > debian as a deb
> > file, and it's running rather slowly (although I understand
> > there are some
> > optimizations you can do for UW).
> >
> > I was using this prepackaged server to get familiar with imap with the
> > intention of  downloading the source and compiling
> > afterwards.  Before doing
> > this, I'm wondering if UW is the best option out there for my
> > purposes (and
> > machine) and how other servers compare (courier, etc.).
> > Could I get some
> > opinions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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