Roger Oberholtzer said the following on 04/17/2013 07:46 AM:
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 13:22 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I would like to enable courier IMAPD on an openSUSE 12.3 system.
If your primary objective is IMAP support, I would recommend using dovecot. Purely my personal recommendation.
I have been considering this. Is there any difference to the physical directory hierarchy compared to what Courier expects? I use procmail to filter my mail, and it leaves it in a Maildir. I seem to recall that there was some difference between Courier and other IMAP daemons.
I will be moving the Maildir folders to a different machine. Perhaps I should copy then with a program that ensures the result is good with dovecot?
I've used dovecot with both mailbox and maildir format - its a configuration issue. RTFM and docco first. There are differences between v1 and v2 so make sure you read the right docco! I've had dovecot deal with BOTH at the same time. Maildir as a one-file-per-message (and them some) format and then dovecot will do its own indexing. For that reason I use resiserFS since then I don't have to worry about the umber of inodes needed. (I've had this discussion elsewhere to do with inn/news). If course this doesn't apply to the 'archive' branch which is in mailbox format. Problems: well, yes I had problems; Dovecot was different and I had to learn and new stuff and got confused by reading v2 docco when I should have been reading v1 ... -- Security should be as intuitive as possible. -- Bruce Schneier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org