<quote who="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 >> > >
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corrupted mboxes
Well thats not cool at all. I have been dealing with corrupt mailboxes for the last year on our exchange server. Infact I will be migrating the entire email system from exchange server to a postfix+dovecot+spamassassin+procmail+mailfilter setup hopefully in the next month or two. But hearing about corrupt mailboxes sends shivers up my spine. Infact I didn't think it was possible to have corruption or at least next to impossible with a unix type mailbox systems.
-- Avery Day