On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:43:01AM +1000, Marc Lucke wrote: > Marc Lucke wrote: > > >I'd like to query whether most agree that dovecot is better than > >uw-imapd & whether it is going to remain a part of the Fedora/Redhat > >projects and is therefore worthwhile sticking with? I say this > >because I am seriously considering going back to uw-imapd. I think > >dovecot is much slower - & without apparent reason - on 2 systems that > >I have changed over (one an older machine running FC1 and another a > >newer system with FC2) that ran uw-imapd a lot faster. Also I keep > >getting a really irritating "invalid mask" error that I never got with > >uw-imapd. > > > >I'm doing more research before throwing the bath water out with the baby. > > > >I've heard positive stuff on this list about dovecot - has anyone else > >had my sort of problems? Anyone fixed them? > > > >Oh - I do access the email via from multiple machines Squirrel-mail, > >Thunderbird & sometimes my collegue will also go in & have a look so > >simultaneous access is possible. I know that dovecot is not designed > >to share the mailbox (or Linux isn't - whatever) but uw-imapd never > >seemed to have a problem. > > > > > >Marc > > > > > Isn't it ironic that after having sent this I upgraded dovecot and > restarted it and now it is a lot faster? Sheesh. Jury is out now - > I'll see what the new version does. > > I answer all my other email on top of the quoted message I am replying > to because this seems to be the standard way to do things in the > business world. Indeed I like it because you can read answers straight > up without having to scroll. So why does everyone on this list still > append their contirbution? Anyone know? I find it a bit annoying. > > > Marc So you can see the postings in the order that they showed up. You don't get the answer before the question. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
