Quoting Dan Price dp@eng.sun.com:
I am currently evaluating Dovecot for deployment to ~200 software engineers (so, heavy email users); I'm hoping this list could provide wisdom about how best to do the configuration, evaluation and deployment, and what testing folks have done to determine whether dovecot is right for their site. Below I've listed the diffs between the dovecot-example.conf and our config.
I would say it is a great IMAP/POP server for almost any site. Best would be to wait for the release version of course, but most (not all) of the RC releases are stable.
Any thoughts about how to approach these issues? I don't really have a feel for how to go from user-observed-app-doing-X to imapd-is-doing-Y.
Report them individually to the mailing list, and you will get instructions on how to debug/repor them...
The big challenge for our site may be mailbox size: the median mailbox size is 62M, the average is 176M and the largest is 1.1GB. I'd be curious to know what sort of mailbox sizes other sites have experienced, and how widespread the use of the Dovecot MDA is-- is this likely to make a big difference for us, and will we have to migrate our (approximately 25) procmail users to sieve?
We use mbox format and have no problems, though our largest mailboxe is 600 MB, so I have no idea how this would work with a 1.1 GB mailbox. I'd be sure you have lots of memory in the machine if you want to be handling mailboxes that size.
We use sendmail for MTA, procmail for filters, dovecot for pop3/imap, Horde/IMP for webmail, and have no problems. You don't have to move to maildir, or sieve, or anything else. dovecot plays nice with almost any software...
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