On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 21:52 -0800, Roger Weeks wrote:
Plus there is an active list where people actually answer questions.
Indeed. Thanks everyone for all the answers to my mail!
I've been using 1.0-alpha5 about since I asked, and it has been working fairly well for me since then. There are just the occasional problem of Dovecot taking extremely long (>1 min) to do some operation every once and then. When I've tried stracing it during that time, it has once been doing something with the index, and the other times it seems to be in the ordinary idle loop, even though evolution says that it's attempting to do something (I don't think it's an Evo problem, since I never experienced it with UW-IMAP).
At the end, though, it is *much* nicer than using UW-IMAP, so I have no real reason to complain. My reason to use Dovecot is that it seems to be just about the *only* IMAP server that is capable of both Maildir storage and GSS-API authentication. When your mboxes start to grow to sizes of ~50 MB (and are accessed over NFS), Maildir is a blessing, to say the least.
Fredrik Tolf