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Re: courier-imap why ?

From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 13:32:06 CDT


On Sunday, October 02, 2005 at 18:23 CEST,
     David Cary Hart <PostfixMTATQMcube.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 21:09 +0530, Varun wrote:
>
> > What does then courier-imap do then ?
>
> No offense but, if your are asking that question, you would probably
> be better off with the infinitely simpler Dovecot at this point (or
> whatever is standard in your distro).

If the role an IMAP server plays in a complete email system is
unclear for the OP, I doubt the choice of IMAP server software
makes any difference whatsoever.

Like many people before me, I must advise the OP to, quite frankly,
get a clue before continuing his/her mission. The questions asked
have been on a very very basic level and would be answered by reading
relevant documentation and/or a book that covers general questions
about email servers. One such book is _Linux Email: Set up and Run
a Small Office Email Server_:

   http://linuxemailbook.packtpub.com/

I am one of the authors and I haven't read the finished book myself,
so I'm not in a position to either recommend it nor ask people to
refrain from buying it. However, it does cover most of the topics
that the OP wants to implement. A book that only covers Postfix
(such as Dent or Hildebrandt/Koetter) would be a good complement.

--
Magnus Bäck
magnusdsek.lth.se