25 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-imapRe: [Courier-imap] LSMTP| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Albert Shih | Feb 8, 2006 12:29 pm | |
| Ralf Hildebrandt | Feb 8, 2006 12:36 pm | |
| Albert Shih | Feb 8, 2006 12:53 pm | |
| Ralf Hildebrandt | Feb 8, 2006 12:57 pm | |
| Jay Lee | Feb 8, 2006 1:01 pm | |
| Albert Shih | Feb 8, 2006 1:06 pm | |
| Jay Lee | Feb 8, 2006 1:14 pm | |
| Albert Shih | Feb 8, 2006 1:32 pm | |
| Jay Lee | Feb 8, 2006 1:59 pm | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 8, 2006 2:02 pm | |
| Angel L. Mateo | Feb 8, 2006 11:51 pm | |
| Ralf Hildebrandt | Feb 9, 2006 12:18 am | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 9, 2006 12:12 pm | |
| Albert Shih | Feb 9, 2006 3:48 pm | |
| Albert Shih | Feb 9, 2006 3:55 pm | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 9, 2006 11:30 pm | |
| Rudy Gevaert | Feb 14, 2006 8:01 am | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 14, 2006 10:34 am | |
| Albert Shih | Feb 14, 2006 2:52 pm | |
| Charles Sprickman | Feb 14, 2006 3:12 pm | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 14, 2006 11:54 pm | |
| Brian Candler | Feb 14, 2006 11:59 pm | |
| Aaron Wiebe | Feb 15, 2006 6:00 am | |
| Chris Stratford | Feb 15, 2006 9:21 am | |
| Aaron Wiebe | Feb 15, 2006 10:30 am |
| Subject: | Re: [Courier-imap] LSMTP | |
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| From: | Brian Candler (B.Ca...@pobox.com) | |
| Date: | Feb 9, 2006 11:30:03 pm | |
| List: | net.sourceforge.lists.courier-imap | |
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:56:17AM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
and manage, and in the case of Cyrus, keeps the code base simple.
Stupid question : Why «in the case of Cyrus» ? What's difference is this question between Cyrus and Courier-Imap ?
Cyrus is a "closed box" solution. It has a proprietary mail store format, and therefore they must include all the tools both for delivering mail to it (LMTP) and retrieving mail from it (POP3 and IMAP). Any webmail server you use with Cyrus would have to talk IMAP, for example.
Courier-imap uses Maildir(++) for its message storage. It doesn't include a component for delivering mail into the Maildir over a TCP/IP connection, because there are plenty of components already available which can do that. (e.g. courier-mta, exim, postfix, or any MTA which can invoke an external delivery agent such as maildrop or deliverquota)
Somebody could write a custom LMTP to Maildir delivery agent, but it probably wouldn't be worth the effort as most people wouldn't use it; they would just configure their Maildir-aware MTA to deliver directly into the Maildir anyway.
Regards,
Brian.