As part of my qmail experiment, I set up Courier IMAP. Courier IMAP advertises to be a lightweight, highly functional IMAP server that is compatible with qmail. Most of my past experience is with CMU's Cyrus IMAP server. Overall, I'm quite impressed.
I was amazed how easy it was to install Courier IMAP. I actually spent more time tweaking my mozilla mail settings then configuring Courier IMAP. In addition to all the standard features one would expect with an IMAP server, Courier IMAP allows for an IMAP "Outbox" that will automatically send out messages that are copied there.
One notable difference between Courier IMAP and Cyrus is that, by default, Courier IMAP keeps all the mail in the user's home directory, whereas Cyrus keeps all the mail in a single repository. In my opinion, this simplifies system administration. Of course, Courier IMAP can be configured to have shared mailboxes and virtual user mailboxes too. Although, I'm not quite sure how the Courier IMAP permissions system works since I have not investigated it.
I'll post more as I learn more. For now Courier IMAP was a breeze to setup for personal use.
Posted by enigma at January 8, 2004 05:23 PM