On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Andrew Martin wrote:
Hi all,
At the suggestion of ryaner (thanks!), we've put a test copy of Dovecot IMAP server on deathray. This has a few advantages over courier:
- It's faster (indexing, caching, stuff). - It lets me log in (courier refuses to accept that I exist, and shows nothing in the error logs). - It's website (http://www.dovecot.org/) says lots of nice things about it.
I haven't added our SSL cert to it just yet, I'll do that in the next few minutes.
It saves it's indexes locally on deathray in /var/indexes/$username, making it nice and fast.
If anyone wants to try it out, just create a Secure IMAP (SSL) connection to deathray.redbrick.dcu.ie, and play around with it.
Few things to mention are that dovecot and courier uses different subscription lists and namespaces. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier details a good part of it and they have done a lot of work over the past while making the change easier. Basic steps would be to copy "courierimapsubscribed" to "subscriptions" for every one but have it changed to remove the inbox prefixes, then copy the uid files if you want. RB has enough cpu/memory so as not to notice a uid rebuild, even for the largest of users here. -- This is the signature Really??? Imagine that