light IMAP server for personal use

Chris Malton chrism at cjsoftuk.dyndns.org
Wed Oct 10 08:31:21 UTC 2007


Steve Lamb wrote:
> Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>> I have some experience with Courier IMAP server, but I would like to set a 
>> small IMAP server in my home box, for local delivery/management of my maildir 
>> folders. What would be the lightest/simplest/fastest IMAP server, that would 
>> allow subfolders? (note that I don't need SSL or quota for this)
> 
>     I'd say give dovecot a try.  I believe it can do subdirs and I know it can
> do maildir.  It's fairly light and a snap to set up.
> 
> 

Agreed.  I use Dovecot on my server for maildirs etc etc and it works 
fantastically.

I'm using SSL for IMAP, but otherwise it's a default configuration.

Chris





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