Roger Weeks wrote:
On Jan 11, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
I didn't know if there was a reason to switch away from other servers, such as Courier or Cyrus.
Well two things convinced us:
Dovecot is fast and stable. The developer answers requests/questions/pleas, sometimes within 10 minutes.
Plus there is an active list where people actually answer questions. I can't say that for courier or cyrus. The lists for both of those servers are full of people with bad answers and bad attitudes! Who wants that?
Roger Weeks
I have been enjoying to read this list (almost daily) since 2004, as mostly nice people hang around. I guess the whole internet is looking forward onto dovecot1.0 (and certainly Timo).
As an operator of a 30,000 user mail service (mbox uw-imap... bliah), I think I understand why Timo is not in a overwhelming harry to release dovecot-1.0stable without thorough testing. I don't think that any programmer wants to put up with even a few angry users who believe (maybe out of ignorance) that the programmer lost their mails. With 1.0-alpha numbering everybody knows that he can't have guaranteed stability.
After all that has been said, dovecot-1.0alpha is too mature and mature for an 1.0alpha. As soon as dovecot-1.0beta comes out, I plan to deploy it on a production server, but only for a few selected mbox/maildir power users, whilst the rest of the users of this server will still use uw-imap/mbox. The latter is possible through the excelent perdition pop3/imap-multiplexer proxy I have in use.
In the back of my mind I hope that dovecot-1.0 will be released stable before the summer of 2006.
Apostolis Papayanakis