IMAP server choices

[Kevin D. Clark]

Drew Taylor <drew at drewtaylor.com> writes:

> I'm thinking about setting up an IMAP server for my personal use for
> the learning experience. What is the "best" one to use? And yes I know
> this is highly subjective. :-)

My opinions...

uw-imap: The. University. Of. Washington. IMAP. Server. Is. Extremely. 
         Slow. Because. It. Uses. Mbox. Format.

dovecot:  I find it locks up quite a bit when used in conjunction with
          Gnus/IMAP and Mozilla/IMAP.

cyrus:  a few years ago when I tried this it seemed difficult to setup
        when I tried to compile it from source code.

courier-imap:  I find this to be straightforward to setup.  I've got
               this working with procmail, SpamAssassin, several IMAP
               clients.  I've had 25000 messages in a Maildir folder
               and courier-imap has handled these just fine.

Regards,

--kevin
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