dovecot - Sep 2006 - Nuby experiences

Hello all,

I am new to dovecot and have had a good experience so far. I'm using 
fetchmail - exim - dovecot - my email clients (mac os mail and 
thunderbird so far). I'm also using Ubuntu Server i.e. debian.

I didn't like the inflexibility of mbox so I did a tweak to exim to 
deliver mail to a Maildir folder in my home directory on the server. I 
restarted Dovecot and it found it! Very nice but mysterious. I don't 
remember if I did anything to the dovecot.conf file.

My clients balk at the ssl certificate that was created at install time. 
I see a little bit of documentation on SSL. I'll struggle with it.

I'm going to look at more client setups like evolution and a webmail 
client. Can anyone recommend a good ajax-driven webmail client?

Dovecot is good software. I'm happy I found it.

Victor Rini wrote:
> My clients balk at the ssl certificate that was created at install time.
> I see a little bit of documentation on SSL. I'll struggle with it.
If you can get your clients to accept the SSL certificate forever, then they
won't see the "scary" warning ever again.  Alternatively, if you
have the client
passwords in plaintext, you can use CRAM-MD5 authentication without using SSL.
> I'm going to look at more client setups like evolution and a webmail
> client. Can anyone recommend a good ajax-driven webmail client?
Check out RoundCube Webmail:

	http://www.roundcube.net/

which is a very nice (but somewhat preliminary) web client.  The next release of
Zimbra:

	http://www.zimbra.com/

is supposed to include support for any IMAP server (currently, it uses its own
mail database).  However, Zimbra is a considerably fatter install than
RoundCube, as it requires installing their whole package (which includes their
own tuned versions of MySQL, etc) in place of your normal distro packages. 
YMMV...

John


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