[Dovecot] How long to 1.0?

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Thu Jan 12 06:18:34 EET 2006


On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:04 AM -0600 Eric Rostetter 
<eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Speed.  It is much faster than the others.  Plus it is more actively
> developed than some older ones, and many claim it is more secure, etc.
>
>> I switched from UW-IMAP based on the Fedora switch, and Dovecot seems
>> much
>> faster than the UW code. (I'm using sendmail/procmail with mbox on the
>> delivery side, and UW's own mbx format when I was using UW-IMAP.)
>
> See, you already knew the answer then.

I didn't know if there was a reason to switch away from other servers, such 
as Courier or Cyrus. I wanted an IMAP server that would work with sendmail 
and procmail, as I've already got a milter setup with SpamAssassin, ClamAV, 
and MIMEDefang, so Dovecot was the logical migration path when Fedora 
dropped UW.

>> I'd guess that Timo's designation of 1.0 as "alpha" is what keeps Fedora
>> from updating to it.
>
> And you'd be wrong...

Not the first time, and probably not the last. ;) I saw the other thread 
right after I'd sent off the above speculation.





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