On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:09 +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: > Hey guys, > I know this is OT but any of you have any idea about this toolkit/system? > I discovered it accidentally today --- didn't even know the GNU project > had its own IMAP and POP3 servers in addition to client-side libraries. I > wonder how good their IMAP daemon is, in terms of performance, > administration flexibility, and stability. > I know writing a good IMAP daemon is no joke -- it's as complex as a > full-fledged NNTP/Usenet system, added to the complexities of that > asynchronous IMAP4 protocol. > These guys even have a good domain: http://mailutils.org > Just curious, that's all. Never played with it [GNU has many project of questionable point; given that truly Open Source, and excellent, implementations exist of different things]. Looking at Git it seems like they are actively working on it. Mailutils has been around since dirt, but I've never heard of it being used as a server. I do know that their IMAP support [client-side] is crap which is why everyone uses/used c-client [derived from UW]. The manual for the imap4d services [which runs under xinted, yuck!] is full of "The information in this node may be obsolete or otherwise inaccurate. This message will disappear, once this node revised.)" ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
