[NCLUG] IMAP and Postfix

Quentin Hartman qhartman at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 14:29:00 MDT 2013


The only IMAP server I've ever deployed is dovecot. I wouldn't say I'm
super familiar with it though, I kinda just threw it out there with a basic
functional config and it "just worked" for the couple years I was
responsible for it.

QH


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Matt Taggart <matt at lackof.org> wrote:

> Steve Wolf writes:
> > What are your recommendations regarding cyrus, courier, or dovecot and
> > their interaction with postfix?
>
> At work ( riseup.net, email services provider ) we use postfix+dovecot,
> after moving recently from postfix+courier.
>
> > My goal for this is a web-based mail client for the mail accounts on
> > my server, leaning towards roundcube.
>
> We have two production webmail front ends: squirrelmail and IMP.
> We've been playing with roundcube some but don't support it yet.
>
> > I don't think I need remote
> > access to the IMAP service; it could probably live on loopback.  With
> > this configuration (roundcube running on the same server that has the
> > mailboxes) do I even need IMAP?
>
> Maybe you'd want to allow your users to use IMAP clients? Maybe you'd want
> to eventually split the webmail server and the IMAP storage server? Maybe
> you'll want to use perdition to proxy requests between servers? Those are
> all reasons we us it.
>
> --
> Matt Taggart
> matt at lackof.org
>
>
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