Re: [SM-USERS] which imap server?

[Christopher W. <ch...@pa...>]

Personally, I use courier-imap which has been solid and reliable for
me..  Though it's my understanding that dovecot is an excellent IMAP
server as well.  Courier has all of my Maildir folders preceded with a
'.' as well as it using it to delimit folder names (ie: '.Mailing Lists'
and '.Mailing Lists.Squirrelmail Users').  I've been using Thunderbird
with this configuration since Thunderbird 0.7 without difficulty.  The
only case where this would cause problems is when you would attempt to
create a folder using a '.' in the name (ie: 'Mail from example.com' or
some such).

- Chris

Pal Laszlo wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks for the fast helpful response to my prev. issue.... let's see the
>next one :)
>
>currently I use dovecot 0.99 as IMAP server because this is compatible
>with courier and handles maildir style mailboxes
>
>I think this is not the best solution since for example dovecot puts a
>'.' before the maildir directories which is not handled properly by
>several imap clients (like thunderbird). 
>
>I've tried to  install courier earlier but I cannot succesfully
>authenticated through this
>
>so, what is your suggestion?
>
>1. should I try to upgrade to dovecot 1.x?
>2. shold I continue to read courier docs and use this?
>3. simply enable uw-imap (can it handle maildir?)
>4. anything else :)
>
>Thank you
>  
>