On Friday 09 February 2007 13.45.32 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Friday 09 February 2007 13:10:04 Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:
For me (OpenSUSE 10.2 on the desktop now...) it is however very rare to see this (but it has happended). But I have the Cyrus notify daemon that will tell Kmail that new mails have arrived. Don't know if Courier has one. If so... Try to enable it. Maybe this is the factor that makes this issue very rare for me.
Both respondants to my question reporting a similar problem are using the cyrus imap server. Maybe I should change from using the courier server. Are there any benefits in using the cyrus one over using the courier one? Per-Olov mentioned the notification feature. Anything else that would warrant a switch?
I am using maildir folders, which are populated by procmail. It is possible that cyrus is compatible with these? That is, can I simply replace courier with cyrus? Of course, the maildir folder is huge and not backed up (I know!!!). So I guess I can't really try until I sort that, switch or no switch...
-- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB
NO. maildir !=maildir+ The rest of my answer is maybe a little bit out of topic ;-) But.... Cyrus uses a sealed mail store that uses maildir+ and indexed mailspools. This gives a huge performance boost. Cyrus also makes procmail not needed as it supports sieve server side sorting directly. Procmails receive, analyze and then maybe reject is not a preferred solution. Courier is a good server, but Cyrus is way ahead of Courier with a better architecture and features (MY opinion). But one benefit I can come up with is that Courier seems to work seamless and perfect over NFS which is not the case with Cyrus. This as maildir+ with indexed mailspool is not NFS safe. I have helped a couple of ISP:s. One of them uses Courier for the NFS mounting of the message store. That implementation works really perfect. So there is definetly nothing wrong with Courier even though I say Cyrus is the no 1 choice. *IF* you would like to change and sees problem.. This can be used with success... Start by copying just one mailbox as a test... http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html Regards /Per-Olov -- GPG keyID: 4DB283CE GPG fingerprint: 45E8 3D0E DE05 B714 D549 45BC CFB4 BBE9 4DB2 83CE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org