[dovecot] Re: dovecot and pop3

[Paul C. Bryan]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Why? Smaller chance of screwups if they don't have compatible file
> locking, or making authentication configuration easier? I don't think
> either is much of a problem though.

It makes sense to leave authentication, authorization, mailbox handling 
to one reliable program. Hopefully, that can be the IMAP daemon.

A POP3 gateway would need only pass along the user's credentials to the 
IMAP server, and have no concern about mailbox format or locations, and 
not worry about file locking or implementing any concurrency mechanisms.

Thoughts?

Paul C. Bryan
email at pbryan.net