Hi,
jaldhar recommended dovecot to me - http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2003/04/07/000286.html ... and so far it seems much nicer than the other imapds. yay.
I use the OS X Mail.app client. I tested it with a test account with no problems, but trying to use it with my usual mail folders (~1.3GB; 120MB in the inbox) it's not working at all.
It seems like dovecot keeps copying the full inbox into a temp file in mail/.imap/INBOX. It did it at least 10 times while I was watching without any noticable progress doing anything at all in Mail.app.
I am running FreeBSD on an ancient box with 384MB ram (but nice SCSI drives).
I tried stopping new mail deliveries to the inbox while I testing, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
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