On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:04 AM -0600 Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu> wrote:
Speed. It is much faster than the others. Plus it is more actively developed than some older ones, and many claim it is more secure, etc.
I switched from UW-IMAP based on the Fedora switch, and Dovecot seems much faster than the UW code. (I'm using sendmail/procmail with mbox on the delivery side, and UW's own mbx format when I was using UW-IMAP.)
See, you already knew the answer then.
I didn't know if there was a reason to switch away from other servers, such as Courier or Cyrus. I wanted an IMAP server that would work with sendmail and procmail, as I've already got a milter setup with SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and MIMEDefang, so Dovecot was the logical migration path when Fedora dropped UW.
I'd guess that Timo's designation of 1.0 as "alpha" is what keeps Fedora from updating to it.
And you'd be wrong...
Not the first time, and probably not the last. ;) I saw the other thread right after I'd sent off the above speculation.