[gtaSAGE-members] Dovecot IMAP daemon.

[Adrian Chung]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:18:33PM -0400, Duane Bedeau wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Adrian Chung wrote:
> 
> > Anyone ever used the Dovecot IMAP daemon?  It touts that it's the
> > fastest IMAP daemon around...  Not sure whether it supports vpopmail
> > authentication though.
> 
> Taken from: http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/doc/auth.txt
> 
> Currently supported password databases:
> 
>  - passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam()
>  - shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam()
>  - pam: Pluggable Authentication Modules
>  - passwd-file: /etc/passwd-like file in specified location
>  - ldap: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
>  - vpopmail: External software used to handle virtual domains
>  - pgsql: A PostgreSQL database.
> 
> So there you are.. It does support vpopmail!

Heh, I looked at this afterwards, and then I decided to try it out.

On a 3000 message mailbox, it definitely opens and sorts faster than
Courier IMAP, visually, I'd say almost twice as fast -- which is
really good.  But, I've got both system accounts, and vpopmail
accounts, so I've currently got Courier setup to do both (which is
easy to do with it's authdaemon).  Trying to do the same with Dovecot
just didn't work out.  Setting Dovecot up to use both passwd and
vpopmail causes it to not authenticate either type of account.

Ah well, it's promising, but not there yet.

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