[Dovecot] running DC and UWIMAP on the same box
It never hurts to ask...... I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized non-standard port. The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same. Questions: that I use to request client service for?
- Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid
- Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?
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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:45 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
It never hurts to ask...... I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized non-standard port. The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same. Questions: that I use to request client service for?
- Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid
Just for those users who you're logging in as. Or even more accurately, only for those mailboxes that it opens.
- Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?
I don't think there should be problems. Dovecot's mbox code should be fully compatible with UW-IMAP.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:45 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
It never hurts to ask...... I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized non-standard port. The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same. Questions: that I use to request client service for?
- Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid
Just for those users who you're logging in as. Or even more accurately, only for those mailboxes that it opens.
- Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?
I don't think there should be problems. Dovecot's mbox code should be fully compatible with UW-IMAP.
Just don't open the same mailbox with Dovecot and UW-IMAP at the same time! You may also find that UW-IMAP changes the UIDVALIDITY sometimes, which will cause Dovecot to complain next time it opens the mailbox, but Dovecot will be happy again on subsequent opens.
We did this for a couple of months before we migrated to Dovecot.
Best Wishes, Chris
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Chris Wakelin
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Stewart Dean
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Timo Sirainen