Sorry if this question has been asked before I looked through some of the archives before posting this. I am considering using dovecot on a small 35 user environment (only around 6 gigs of email) that will be primarly be used with squirrelmail for the MUA. I have been using dovecot for a few weeks now and really like it. It is a big improvement over uw-imap thats for sure. I was wondering how many people in this mailing list are using dovecot for a production email server, and why you chose to use dovecot over cyrus or courier. Or maybe someone feels that dovecot isnt ready for this type of thing just yet. I am all ears so please feel free. Thanks -- Avery -- Avery Day
We just started using it on a system with more than 50,000 users and it works quite nicely. Migrating from uw-imap to dovecot caused a few problems with some user's mail clients, like Mozilla mail based clients issued command that cuased the server to respond with "Invalid mask", and Eudora's SASL AUTH doesn't seem to work with the pop server, but other than that it seems to work great. Any word when we are going to see 1.0 =) Avery Day wrote:>Sorry if this question has been asked before I looked through some of the >archives before posting this. > >I am considering using dovecot on a small 35 user environment (only around >6 gigs of email) that will be primarly be used with squirrelmail for the >MUA. I have been using dovecot for a few weeks now and really like it. It >is a big improvement over uw-imap thats for sure. I was wondering how many >people in this mailing list are using dovecot for a production email >server, and why you chose to use dovecot over cyrus or courier. Or maybe >someone feels that dovecot isnt ready for this type of thing just yet. I >am all ears so please feel free. > >Thanks > >-- James L Moser james at powweb.com PowWeb Hosting http://www.powweb.com /(bb|[^b]{2})/, that is the Question. mysql>SELECT * FROM user WHERE clue > 0; Empty set (0.03 sec) Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die... Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: james.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 239 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20040408/f273da70/attachment-0001.vcf>
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:26, James Moser wrote:> We just started using it on a system with more than 50,000 users and it > works quite nicely. Migrating from uw-imap to dovecot caused a few > problems with some user's mail clients, like Mozilla mail based clients > issued command that cuased the server to respond with "Invalid mask", > and Eudora's SASL AUTH doesn't seem to work with the pop server, but > other than that it seems to work great. >Just b/c I'm curious (and if you want take this offlist is fine) what's your setup look like for this system? Do you have a whitepaper or a layout for it? Thanks, -sv
I am running it in a production environment with about 500 users. I wasn't particularly excited about running pre 1.0 pop3 imap server software but it had all the features I was after. I was looking for: - LDAP authentication - POP3, POP3S, IMAP, IMAPS - mbox support (simultaneous support for maildir is also nice since we'll hopefully migrate sometime soon.) - easy but powerful configuration - a nice responsive developer and support community - uw-imap compatibility (that's what we were running before) - written with security in mind - good documentation - open source and Free It's also nicely packaged for debian by the nice folks at braincells.com. I've been mostly happy. Some things still feel a little fragile. We've had corrupted mboxes a few times, but I haven't had time to figure what is at fault. I suppose certain pop clients could be the problem. The LDAP authentication doesn't seem to work well with stunnel. Other than these few small blips, it's been running flawlessly for over 8 months. One other concern which worries me a little, is that the primary developer Timo seems to have gotten busy or uninterested recently. He was clearly going above and beyond by responding to every question within minutes, but looking at the archives recently he is posting a lot less. I just hope he's busy and not burned out because his work on dovecot is amazing. -jared On Apr 8, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Avery Day wrote:> > Sorry if this question has been asked before I looked through some of > the > archives before posting this. > > I am considering using dovecot on a small 35 user environment (only > around > 6 gigs of email) that will be primarly be used with squirrelmail for > the > MUA. I have been using dovecot for a few weeks now and really like it. > It > is a big improvement over uw-imap thats for sure. I was wondering how > many > people in this mailing list are using dovecot for a production email > server, and why you chose to use dovecot over cyrus or courier. Or > maybe > someone feels that dovecot isnt ready for this type of thing just yet. > I > am all ears so please feel free. > > Thanks > -- > Avery > > > > -- > Avery Day >