+++ Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe [21/06/02 23:00 +0530]:
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
An addressbook can easily be created with a LDAP based system, and postfix+courier/cyrus are good SMTP|IMAP|POP solutions.
Could say the same thing for qmail ... LDAP for addressbooks, and qmail+UW-imap works very well.
Until you meet mailbox corruption with mbox, and some id ten T type of person with a huge mailbox (uw-imap loads the entire mailbox into memory).
http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#pop-imap-servers http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/
And for features, and community contributed add-ons, checkout
On an aside, qmail has a built-in POP server called qmail-pop3d. But it works with Maildir delivery format only. But our sysads decided against Maildir, because it wasn't considered a good idea to deliver mail into the home of users who might accidentally delete it! Is there anyone here who actually uses Maildir?
Maildir is safer than mbox for high loads. Oh, and postfix does both mbox and maildir. Try using a setup with maildir outside the home directories of users (aka virtual users). Courier supports this nicely, or cyrus provides a blackbox solution. And if you are supporting smtp auth, then cyrus uses the same backend (SASL) for AA.
But this is off topic for the original mail. Could we please get some input on client requirements so that a good solution can be offered.
Devdas Bhagat