On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 10:18 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > Folks, > > I have been using dovecot for quite some time now, and > it has worked but it is rather limited for what I want to > do. I did not install IMAP because at the time, it was > too complicated to get it working or setup. ---- you only need to enable IMAP in dovecot configuration and restart dovecot (I presume since I have never used dovecot) ---- > But now, that I want to use IMAP for the express purpose > to manage ALL of the user's mailboxes to prevent mailbox > bloat, or to centralize or redistribute messages to other > internal email servers. ---- IMAP doesn't necessarily do any of those things that you are wanting to do...perhaps you need to read up on IMAP. ---- > What do you use or recommend using for managing your > email server on Fedora, i.e. IMAP or POP? At this > time , it seems there are only one of two choices, > available: Cyrus for IMAP or Dovecot for POP. ---- there are all sorts of choices for a IMAP/POP server but cyrus-imap and dovecot are the only ones included as part of Fedora core. Myself, I heavily recommend use of cyrus-imapd as it is truly more sophisticated, supports multiple data stores, has many 'auto' features including mailbox creation, IMAP folder subscriptions, public folders, automatic sieve script creation and 'quotas' Craig
