Wich POP3 server
Claude Gagné
claude.gagne at multitech.qc.ca
Wed Apr 18 19:45:45 IST 2007
Scott Silva a écrit :
> Jeff A. Earickson spake the following on 4/18/2007 4:29 AM:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Arto wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Claude Gagn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently searching for a good POP3. I heard that dovecot is
>>>>> pretty good.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you think ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Dovecot is OK, its pretty fast, but buggy, it had 31 or so release
>>>> candicates before 1.0, and a bug was found the same day it was released
>>>> (under a week ago), it reminds me of gaim, and how holey that is, the
>>>> only difference is, on dedicated sendmail boxes I will use Dovecot
>>>> (and never touch gaim despite its recent name change to try avoid the
>>>> stigma), as we use squirrelmail and its nice features, if you dont
>>>> need imap, try popa3d, very small, very fast.
>>>>
>>> I have to disagree. I have followed the development of dovecot and I
>>> must say Timo's principles to implement it are really demanding. The
>>> amount of release candidates does not tell the truth. Already the
>>> first of them were used in demanding production.
>>>
>> I second Arto's disagreement. In fact, calling dovecot buggy is really
>> unfair.
>> I have been using dovecot *in production* since beta9 (about 1.5 years and
>> about 40 releases ago). Even at beta9, it blew the doors off of UW IMAP.
>> It has just gotten better, faster, more features since then. The only
>> rc that ever blew up on me was rc27. I dropped back to rc26, and Timo
>> had rc28 released within two hours to fix the problem. Dovecot is rock
>> solid code now at 1.0.
>>
>> Disclaimer: I only use dovecot for IMAP, not POP. I use qpopper for
>> that (different machine). I should switch...
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>>
> Dovecot was blowing away wu imap way back at 0.99!
>
>
All the peoples that had some problem with dovecot seems to be before
the 1.0 ?
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