On Mon, February 15, 2010 21:53, Karl Pearson wrote: > On Fri, February 12, 2010 2:58 pm, Jerry Kaidor wrote: >>> >>> Why didn't you try Dovecot? >> *** Thanks for the pointer. If UW doesn't satisfy, I'll try it. >> >> The main thing I like about UW is that it deals with mail kept in the >> usual place - /home/myname/Mail with the individual message lists as >> files in mbox format. Because I also read mail from the Linux command >> line with elm. > > Dovecot can be configured to keep any format/location you want. So, if > you ever get to use it, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. > >> >> And 20-30 folders is fine with me - that's about all I have anyway. >> >> - Jerry Kaidor We are a debian-Linux shop. We switched a number of years ago from UW to dovecot. At the same time we switched to mdir format from mbox. The only think I noticed was that the first time dovecot read from a folder with a lot of messages is that it timed out (we are talking 4000+ message). It continued to complete the indexing in the background so the next time it came up it was fine. There is software that converts from mbox to mdir format. We were moving users over to a new server. We use procmail as the MDA and when I mixed up the the format the message went to the /var/spool/mail area in mbox format. Fixed the .procmailrc file, re-ran mb2mb and everything was fine. We are using dovecot to handle both pop3 and imap access and that has solved conflicts we were having. I use SM, but my sysadmin uses mutt w/o issue (I use mutt to cleanout accounts when M$ mailreaders time out or block on reading particular messages). Good luck. ------ William R. Mussatto Systems Engineer http://www.csz.com 909-920-9154 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
