[Dovecot] noob - Outlook Duplicate Problem Question

Christian Balzer chibi at gol.com
Wed Nov 17 03:00:29 EET 2004


Timo wrote:
>On 12.11.2004, at 20:53, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:51:17PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>
>>> Dovecot 0.99.x isn't very good as pop3 server, so it wouldn't be a bad
>>> idea to try another pop3 server either.
>>
>> I'm using 0.99.10.4 for pop3 -- should I be concerned about
>> that statement?  :-)
>>
>> I mean, it does appear to work for what we use it for.
>
>It's slow and it doesn't support pop3 auth initial responses which 
>breaks eg. eudora logging in.
>
Well, POP3 works great for us (large 5digit number of mailboxes) using
maildir. Quite speedy, too. The auth bits are not an issue here as
the dovecot mailbox servers are sitting behind a cluster running 
perdition (pop3/imap proxy). :)

Regards,

Christian Balzer
-- 
Christian Balzer        Network/Systems Engineer                NOC
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