> uw-imap is well known, there is a lot of documentation on it, including > the managing IMAP book, it supports shared folders and some nice mail > administrator modes. For those of us that took the advice of the uw-imap > folks, we moved from Unix mbox format to mbx format to speed things up and > allow for concurrent access. > > Also, when you look at a lot of companion software, you see uw-imap listed > as tested, but there is no mention of dovecot. Makes admins scared. > > I hope this will change. Inclusion of dovecot in Fedora will hopefully > increase the amount of testing and programming help that it gets. There > are some scary issues listed on the web site for dovecot, but I hope those > will be resolved with the 1.0 release. Dovecot also does its security model differently, AFAIK. The mail folders are accessed as a unified userid, unlike uw-imap, which runs as the end user. This breaks things like cryptographic filesystems, which require that the folders be accessed by individual users. C
