[Dovecot] Dovecot vs Couir-IMAP

[Erdenebat Gantomor]

Yes of course. I will be glad if you will give me a that report. Thank you

 

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 Erdenebat Guntomor/                   /mailto:RkLogin at gmail.com



Frank Doege wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i also use courier-imap in a bigger configuration with database access
> and everything normally used. Iam actually planning to switch to
> dovecot, courier looks for me not very well implemented, the
> documentation lacks many features and its not very performant in large
> environment, client actions are often consuming 99% of the cpu where the
> process is running, so if you only have a uniprocessor machine it could
> easy get critical.
>
> I have not yet tested dovecot in productive environment but i will do
> this soon, i will report the result if requested.
>
> With the configuration of courier i had never any problem, so from that
> ni cant prove your experience.
>
> Frank
>
> Marshal Newrock wrote:
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>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:34:36 +0800
>> Erdenebat Gantomor <rklogin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I'm the beginner for IMAP/POP3 servers. I'm starting to use Dovecot.
>>> But I'm confusing between Courier-IMAP and Dovecot. Anyone tell me
>>> some quick tips regarding this issue. What's the better and what's
>>> the worst thing comparing these two IMAP/POP3 servers? I think the
>>> Dovecot is good enough for security and performance issue over
>>> Courier. Is it right? And how about the feature comparision?
>>>       
>> A while back, I was trying to configure Courier to use a MySQL
>> database.  It wasn't working, and I couldn't figure out why.  After a
>> bit of head-scratching, I decided to try the new thing that everyone
>> was talking about, Dovecot (which was then at version 0.99).  It still
>> didn't work, but it told me why, and within an hour, it was working.  :)
>>
>> As an added benefit, with postfix 2.3 or later (or a patched postfix
>> 2.2), it replaces Cyrus SASL for SMTP authentication, and is vastly
>> simpler to configure.
>>
>> I don't think the Courier configuration is terribly complicated, but I
>> also don't recall it having quite so many features as Dovecot.  Which
>> is certainly not to say that Dovecot configuration is in any way
>> complicated.
>>
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