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

[Mike]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, Alain Magloire might have said:

> > 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?

Dovecot does not yet exist on my servers. Currently my users pull
mail through pop3. I want to change this for several reasons. I will
install an internal imap4 server and want something that is simple,
pulls users and authenticates through LDAP, allows shared mailboxes,
does not require the first mail message in the user's inbox be left
for IMAP housekeeping.

Though my users will have local, unix accounts I do not want the
IMAP server to be tied to those accounts and to accept allowable
accounts from the LDAP server. The shared mailboxes will work
like this. (i.e. there is a 'sales' mailbox, but no 'sales' user)

I run cyrus at home, though over that past several years (6?) I
have become loathe to the complexity of cyrus and would prefer
to return to a maildir either owned by the IMAP server (for shared
or all accounts) or owned by the individual user where the user
has a unix account. That way I can grep to my heart's content.

I will implement something along the lines of a sendmail relay
in my DMZ sending to an internal sendmail server. I have not yet
decided if the relay server or the internal server will have the
spamassassin and clamav setup. One of the two will. The internal
server will send the messages (lmtp?) to the IMAP4 server.

Does that help? Does it make sense?

Mike