[Dovecot] Thanks!
Hello,
I just recently switched my system from a BincIMAP/vpopmail to a Dovecot/vpopmail system, and I have to say: thanks!
There were really only two things I had to patch Dovecot to do: first, provide statistics on network usage, and second, to allow folders to be LIST'd/SELECT'd/etc. with a trailing separator (to satisfy my pine users). If anyone's interested, I can generate a patch for that stuff.
Other than that, it's been a real breeze. Dovecot is really simple to
configure, and is faaaaaaaast! We have a kind of a wonky setup
(multiple domains, multiple SSL keys, etc.) and Dovecot hasn't gotten
mad even once. Timo, thanks a bunch, it's an excellent piece of
software.
~Kyle
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams
On Wednesday of March 21 2007, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
to allow folders to be LIST'd/SELECT'd/etc. with a trailing separator (to satisfy my pine users). If anyone's interested, I can generate a patch for that stuff.
I have many pine users (pine as imap client) on one of servers that I want to migrate to dovecot - I'd be happy to see the patch. Maybe is could be merged to mainstream dovecot (do you think it breaks imap specs?) regards
Marcin Gryszkalis, PGP 0x9F183FA3 jabber jid:mg@fork.pl, gg:2532994 http://the.fork.pl
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 14:39 +0100, Marcin Gryszkalis wrote:
be LIST'd/SELECT'd/etc. with a trailing separator (to satisfy my pine users). If anyone's interested, I can generate a patch for that stuff.
Isn't SELECT the only command where that's needed?
I have many pine users (pine as imap client) on one of servers that I want to migrate to dovecot - I'd be happy to see the patch. Maybe is could be merged to mainstream dovecot (do you think it breaks imap specs?)
Note that the behavior that the patch adds worked that way ONLY in BINC imapd. Both Courier and Cyrus give the same "NO Mailbox doesn't exist" error that Dovecot does. I'm not really interested in adding kludges to make a few Pine user's life a bit easier. I'd rather see someone at least try to get that fixed (or "changed"..) in Pine.
On Wednesday, March 21 at 03:48 PM, quoth Timo Sirainen:
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 14:39 +0100, Marcin Gryszkalis wrote:
be LIST'd/SELECT'd/etc. with a trailing separator (to satisfy my pine users). If anyone's interested, I can generate a patch for that stuff.
Isn't SELECT the only command where that's needed?
No, unfortunately; after working with one of my pine users, we found that several commands had to be modified because pine uses the same tab-completion in several different ways (e.g. such as when picking a folder to save a message into---where it will use either LIST or LSUB). The solution (read: hack) was essentially identical to the SELECT solution, so it was easy to do.
Note that the behavior that the patch adds worked that way ONLY in BINC imapd. Both Courier and Cyrus give the same "NO Mailbox doesn't exist" error that Dovecot does. I'm not really interested in adding kludges to make a few Pine user's life a bit easier. I'd rather see someone at least try to get that fixed (or "changed"..) in Pine.
Huh... I wonder why pine does what it does, then.
<sigh> Yet Another Reason to use mutt.
~Kyle
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -- Oscar Wilde
On Wednesday of March 21 2007, you wrote:
Note that the behavior that the patch adds worked that way ONLY in BINC imapd. Both Courier and Cyrus give the same "NO Mailbox doesn't exist"
Good, so as (almost former) Courier user I do not have to worry. regards
Marcin Gryszkalis, PGP 0x9F183FA3 jabber jid:mg@fork.pl, gg:2532994 http://the.fork.pl
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Kyle Wheeler
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Marcin Gryszkalis
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Timo Sirainen