[bug-mailutils] RE: mailutils vs. dovecot?

[Alain Magloire]

> From: Mike [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:15 PM
> To: Alain Magloire
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: mailutils vs. dovecot?
> 
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, Alain Magloire might have said:
> 
> >
> > Are you on the right list?
> > What is Dovecot?
> > Yes Mailutils has support for maildir, if configure.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: news [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Mike
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:53 AM
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > Subject: mailutils vs. dovecot?
> > >
> > > I'm about to implement dovecot and got to thinking
> > > about gnu/mailtools. What are the advantages of dovecot
> > > over gnu/mailtools? Does gnu/mailtools support maildir?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
> Sorry, didn't mean to post to a developer's list.

Not a problem.

> Dovecot is an imap server similiar to cyrus, courier, dbmail, etc.
>

Ok.
Mailutils comes with its own IMAP server.  Granted it may not be the fastest
server in the west, but it seems to work well even heavy load.  Now,
unfortunately I do not have any empirical numbers to back this up.

So the questions are:
- What is dovecot bringing that we do not?
- If dovecot already exists, why do you want to re-implement it?