Re: Locking hell

Subject: Re: Locking hell
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 08:52:15 CST

• Next message: Keith Stevenson: "local delivery agent causes duplicate messages in low resource environment"
• Previous message: Anand Buddhdev: "Re: Locking hell"
• In reply to: Anand Buddhdev: "Re: Locking hell"
• Next in thread: Bennett Todd: "Re: Locking hell"
• Next in thread: Rupa Schomaker (list): "Re: Locking hell"
• Reply: Ralf Hildebrandt: "Re: Locking hell"
• Reply: Bennett Todd: "Re: Locking hell"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:44:33PM +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> For POP: qmail-pop3d (www.qmail.org) and solidpop3 (www.freshmeat.net)
solidpop3 doesn't work on Solaris :(

qmail-pop3d : sounds good

> For IMAP: courierimap (www.inter7.com/courierimap). There's also a
> patched UW_IMAP that works with Maildirs, but you'll have to search the
> qmail archives to find out about it. I don't have a URL handy. In any
> case, courierimap is much smaller, faster, and flexible.

Seen that. IMHO software coming from UW sucks.

Problem: Assume we change to maildir (which seems really smart), do the
following programs still work (or can be made to work):

* SUN mailtool (don't laugh)
* elm
* pine
* mutt
* vm
* gnus

-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
In German "invent-a-new-word-where-a-perfectly-good-one-already-exists" is
probably a word.

• Next message: Keith Stevenson: "local delivery agent causes duplicate messages in low resource environment"
• Previous message: Anand Buddhdev: "Re: Locking hell"
• In reply to: Anand Buddhdev: "Re: Locking hell"
• Next in thread: Bennett Todd: "Re: Locking hell"
• Next in thread: Rupa Schomaker (list): "Re: Locking hell"
• Reply: Ralf Hildebrandt: "Re: Locking hell"
• Reply: Bennett Todd: "Re: Locking hell"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b27 : Thu Jan 20 2000 - 08:54:40 CST