On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:01:49 -0600, gregwm <tclug at greatlakedata.com> wrote: > hello fellow techheads, > > does anyone have a pointer to a nice terse unbiased discussion somewhere > about the relative merits of courier imap vs cyrus imap vs other remote > email access folder sharing methods? You likely wont find one. Do some research on both sides of the fence to find out what fits best for your situation. > does the fact that cyrus has come into common use for smtpauth stand as > a factor for also using cyrus imap vs courier imap or is that > irrelevant? postfix uses the cyrus sasl libs to do smtpauth, and though there is much confusion on how to do it, once you figure it out its not bad. > is there a way to do roaming profiles via imap? roaming profiles for what? imap is best used for mail storage, using it for much of anything else will likely give you a headache. > or conversely, are there better approaches that either solve or obviate > the needs for imap and/or roaming profiles? LDAP is a convienient way to store profile like information in a central place for roaming (generic) clients. The problem is, not many email clients know how to do this. > and what does anyone think of Sender Policy Framework? I think its a good idea, but may not go very far. > (i'm in the visioning stage for replacing our m$ based mail service..) There are a lot of options out there: sendmail/postfix/qmail + courier-imap/cyrus-imap/uw-imap (and more). Most have a way of using *sql or LDAP as a back end so you dont have to rely on system accounts. I prefer the postfix/courier-imap/mysql combo at home, and the same basic setup at work, but with LDAP instead of mysql. -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list