[Dovecot] running DC and UWIMAP on the same box

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Mar 15 20:53:31 EET 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:45 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
> It never hurts to ask......
> I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for 
> production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I 
> introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized  non-standard 
> port.  The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same.
> Questions:
> 1) Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid 
> that I use to request client service for?

Just for those users who you're logging in as. Or even more accurately,
only for those mailboxes that it opens.

> 2) Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?

I don't think there should be problems. Dovecot's mbox code should be
fully compatible with UW-IMAP.

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