[wellylug] debian imap

Donald Gordon don at dis.org.nz
Thu Jul 1 10:43:52 NZST 2004


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:22:52 +1200
jumbophut <jumbophut at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:11:01 +1200, mark at databackup.co.nz wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone got any ideas as to the best/easiest imap package that I can apt-get
> > onto his server??
> >
> 
> uw-imapd
> uw-imapd-ssl if secure traffic is required.

For 3.5GB of mail, you *don't* want to use mbox files.  And (AFAIK) uw-imapd only supports the mbox mailbox format.  courier-imapd or similar with Maildirs will be much faster.

donald




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