[Dovecot] Dovecot for production environment

[Jared]

I am running it in a production environment with about 500 users.  I 
wasn't particularly excited about running pre 1.0 pop3 imap server 
software but it had all the features I was after.

I was looking for:

- LDAP authentication
- POP3, POP3S, IMAP, IMAPS
- mbox support (simultaneous support for maildir is also nice since 
we'll hopefully migrate sometime soon.)
- easy but powerful configuration
- a nice responsive developer and support community
- uw-imap compatibility (that's what we were running before)
- written with security in mind
- good documentation
- open source and Free

It's also nicely packaged for debian by the nice folks at 
braincells.com.

I've been mostly happy.  Some things still feel a little fragile.  
We've had corrupted mboxes a few times, but I haven't had time to 
figure what is at fault.  I suppose certain pop clients could be the 
problem.  The LDAP authentication doesn't seem to work well with 
stunnel. Other than these few small blips, it's been running flawlessly 
for over 8 months.

One other concern which worries me a little, is that the primary 
developer Timo seems to have gotten busy or uninterested recently.  He 
was clearly going above and beyond by responding to every question 
within minutes, but looking at the archives recently he is posting a 
lot less.  I just hope he's busy and not burned out because his work on 
dovecot is amazing.

-jared


On Apr 8, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Avery Day wrote:

>
> Sorry if this question has been asked before I looked through some of 
> the
> archives before posting this.
>
> I am considering using dovecot on a small 35 user environment (only 
> around
> 6 gigs of email) that will be primarly be used with squirrelmail for 
> the
> MUA. I have been using dovecot for a few weeks now and really like it. 
> It
> is a big improvement over uw-imap thats for sure. I was wondering how 
> many
> people in this mailing list are using dovecot for a production email
> server, and why you chose to use dovecot over cyrus or courier. Or 
> maybe
> someone feels that dovecot isnt ready for this type of thing just yet. 
> I
> am all ears so please feel free.
>
> Thanks
> -- 
> Avery
>
>
>
> -- 
> Avery Day
>