Hi, On 17 Sep 2001, at 10:36, Martin Schichl wrote:
My questions: - any experience with imap on qmail? - do I have to switch the whole thing to imap, or can I run pop3 and imap parallel? - what's about security with imap? (ok ... I know pop3 does not have any either) - are there different distributions of imap servers? (which one fits into qmail with vchkpw)
Courier should suffice at least for your small setup. You must understand, that courier-imap (at least as far as I know) accesses the Maildirs an filesystem level, and therefore does not need to interact with qmail or whatever system you use. So it is possible to run pop and imap side by side, but depending on what you want it to do, remember to make shure the clients accessing an email account with pop have to leave the messages on the server to keep them available for them, when they access the account through imap. Like allways with security, check the Imap ressources for security issues. Be aware, that when reading mails with Imap, you may be much longer connected to the server thus the risks for the connections are higher than with pop. Imap can run over encrypted mechanisms as well as pop can. There are several Imap servers, I used courier without problems, I cannot remember if it was on the SuSE CDs or from the web, it was a straightforward process for me.
Any experience with virus scanners for qmail?
Basically you can intercept the operation of qmail anywhere. A little script in the right place will do spam defence as well as virus scanning, all you need is a scanner you can pass commandlines to. HTH mike