Hi Tom, On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 06:24:41 -0500 UTC (11/2/2003, 5:24 AM -0600 UTC my time), Tom Allison wrote: T> I'm a little hooked on postfix, although I'll admit that qmail certainly T> does have it's merits. Agreed <g> I switched a few years ago. T> IMHO I think that between the two of us we are playing with the top 2 T> mail servers in the world! Also agreed.. a perfect combo. T> But no one is really absolutely certain which is first because it all T> depends on what's your "itch". Yahoo uses qmail, and Rediffmail has a user base of over 15 million, and it is easily handled by qmail.
Next regarding IMAP(S) for Maildir/ One of the newest I recommend is Binc, or bincimap.. It is designed for Maildir/ only, 10,000s of lines of C code less than all the others, very fast, and just came out for production. It is a natural for qmail, as it uses the same checkpassword as qmail does. It is very easy to set up, and run with it using SSL. I use it exclusively for the servers I build. In beta, it was tested by a firm with over a 50,000 user base with no problems..
T> I have heard of Binc, and dovecot as two potential solutions but haven't T> been able to find much in terms of endorsements anywhere.
I can tell you from being involved in the beta, that it is very strong and stable now that it is in production. You can ask on the binc list, as the author, Andy, answers many of the questions... www.bincimap.org T> I think I'll give Binc a try. You will like it. Very easy to set up. T> BTW - This leads me to another very generic question: T> mbox format -- email is seperated by a string like /^From / at the top T> of each email. Yes, but more importantly, mbox format is just one huge file of emails, constantly growing, and yes, each email is separated by the From: at the top. Your MTA and MDA (Procmail) must lock the mbox file first to add mail. Now, /Maildir/ format stores each email individually instead of adding email to the existing mbox mail spool. This is why it requires no locking, safer, and can be used over NFS. T> In this string is the Envelope Header (MAIL FROM) in my T> messages. If you are using Postfix, you can see the headers of your mail. I believe Postfix uses the Return-Path as the envelope sender.. T> Two question: T> Postfix puts the Envelope Header into /^Return-Path: / -- True/False? Have not used Postfix in a very long time, but I would say yes it does. T> Does maildir provide a similar format or at least embed the Envelope T> Header into the email if postfix doesn't? Maildir is a format for storing email. It is up to your MTA to put in proper headers. I just thought of something. IIRC, Postfix will accept using /Maildir/ format, and you can specify this in the main.cf file. Postfix will also allow you to call Procmail from the main file, which can be done globally, so mail can be moved to any /Maildir/ on your system... This would solve your problem too. You can still use Binc, as it works with /Maildir/ format for secure IMAP, or IMAPS .. <g> -- Gary Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.