[imp] Suggestions for wu-imap altenatives

[Dan H]

Mike,

Honestly (in my opinion) switching to courier-imap isn't that painful.  I used
to be a regular user of wu-imap.  There was some trial and error 
involved but I
am much happier since I made the change.  Also the maildir system is a 
much more
efficient system. For example... If someone has 100 emails in their inbox all
the data is stored in one large file.  That will start to slow things 
down.  If
you have someone lazy like me who never gets around to putting the mail into
folders the size can get out of hand.  With the maildir system all the emails
are stored in small individual files.  So whether someone has 10 emails or
10,000 they don't slow down.  If you are running a small mail server then now
is the absolute best time to change.  Worst time to change is once it gets
large.  There is also a program out there that will convert your mail files
from Mbox to Maildir.  I used it a few months back to do my conversion. 
  It was
painless.  Give it a try.  It may be a little work at first but you will be
happier in the long run.

Regards,
Dan H

> I briefly looked into Courier-imap.  It looks like it could be "significant"
> work for me.  I don't want this to be a major project.  I just want to
> upgrade a small email server so people can get their via a web front end
> (Horde/IMP).
>
> The main problem seems to be that Courier-imap expects mail to be in a
> different format (note I'm a novice here).  It expect "maildirs" while
> uw-imap stores email in a different format.
>
> Any suggestions for an IMAP implementation that can easily be swapped in for
> uw-imap?  Keeping with the notion of making this a relatively painless
> effort (if possible) an RPM for Redhat would be most convenient.
>
> Mike