[nzlug] imap question

[Warren Boyd]

On 2006-10-13, at 04:16 , Craig Box wrote:

>
>> Seconded. It uses Maildir by default (unlike evil nasty Cyrus) and
>> Just Works(TM)! It didn't have support for shared folders last time I
>> looked (April) but apart from that its great (and its probably in
>> there now).
>
> I have to say, I hated Cyrus when I was using it properly.  My  
> advice is do
> not even think about using it if you have accounts/home directories  
> on the
> machine -  use Courier or Dovecot.  However, if you need to have a  
> "black
> box" that authenticates off something and speaks just IMAP/POP,  
> Cyrus is
> great.  It's unsurprising that it forms the base for projects such as
> Zimbra.
>

One thing to note if your using Courier + Mail.app (Apple's Mail  
client) ... it seems that there is an issue with the two where email  
becomes "unread" ... I thought I'd had this licked by getting courier  
to rebuild it's indexes ... but sadly, the issue is back ... and  
google shows it to be fairly well known now :(

Warren.