imapd blues

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:26:57AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
> It's just me. Currently I'm using over 500Megs of disk space on my 
> commercial mail server
> and it just grows and grows and I keep getting over quota charge 
> penalties. I want to setup
> another imap server on my own pc so that I can use it as a mail backup. 
> Thus I want to be
> able to drag and drop mail items in thunderbird from my main mail area 
> to local storage.

Cyrus is overkill, then.

Try:

Dovecot http://www.dovecot.org

Courier http://www.courier-mta.org (has a separable IMAPd, many
HOWTOs)

BINC IMAP http://www.bincimap.org

Any of these can authenticate through PAM, if you wish. All are
easier than Cyrus to understand and configure.

-dsr-

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