Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:03:00 John Andersen wrote:
> Server Side mail sorting is a far better solution than having this done
> in every client, especially since IMAP's whole raison d'etre is for
> access to the same mailbox from multiple clients.
>
> Cyrus is what I use on our mail servers, and it is nice because it
> handles everything, imap, imap-secure, pop, pop-secure, and seive
> and seems fairly bullet proof.

Dovecot also handles all this in addition to managesieve and it is nearly 
trivial to integrate into any MTA because it provides a dovecot-deliver 
binary.

I've had individual dovecot-imap processes crash, but it hasn't affected the 
availability of the service.  I think both Cyrus and Dovecot had recent DSAs, 
but neither has a disturbing record of insecurities.
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