Re: IMAP server options in pkgsrc

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:

> The web relatively clearly recommended dovecot, so I started looking there.
> However, there just has been a major bump and configuration is a bit
> different for the older version in mail/dovecot2. For a new setup this
> gives me a bad feeling, I don't want to have a complex major bump "soonish".
>
> The other obvious option is mail/cyrus-imapd24, which also is a majore
> version behind the current 3.8.6. pkgsrc-wip has a slightly older
> cyrus-imapd36.

My recommendation is to use dovecot for IMAP and not run POP3 at all.
I think you will find that your config file is pretty small.  My config,
including offering auth to postfix and tls, is 36 lines (ignore blank
and comments).

I just added to dovecot.conf

  !include_try local.conf


My personal guess is that the total work to configure dovecot and
migrate, and deal with issues arising over the next 1-2 years is much
lower than the effort to deal with cyrus.   Many people run dovecot and
there are relatively few gripes.