Hello, on Freitag, 19. November 2010, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:11:01 +0100 Christian Boltz wrote:
[1] at least I think so after a short look at the changelog - the entries look more like maintenance stuff. (Please correct me if I'm wrong - maybe I simply missed the "cool new features" section.) On the positive side, courier _is_ actively maintained, which makes it better than procmail ;-)
I again read this as "software that does not need changes for almost 10 years must be bad, only software that is in need of constant bugfixing can be good".
To be honest, I think this is plain stupid. Not having to touch a piece of software for years is more like a sign of quality (at least if it is a non-trivial piece of software).
Yes, of course. However, there are some real advantages of dovecot when you compare it to courier. For example: - less RAM usage, especially for IMAP - more features (for example you can store quota usage in MySQL, which makes it easy to display it in a web interface etc.) - uses sieve scripts (standardized format with several tools around) instead of the maildrop-specific format that courier maildrop uses - supports better mail storage file formats (dbox) if you are a performance junkie ;-) and also supports the well-known mailbox and maildir formats (+index) if you want/need to be compatible with everything I never said that courier is bad or broken (and BTW, I'm using it on several servers for more or less historical reasons). I only said that dovecot is the better choice nowadays. "Nowadays" of course includes the fact that dovecot is quite young and some years ago courier was better. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Aber genauso können mir ja auch die Grünen leid tuen. Da bin ich doch lieber blau ... [Konrad Neitzel in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org