Hi! I'm currently running RH 9 with postfix, uw-imap and MailScanner. I want to install Fedora Core 2 (when it comes out next week) with postfix, dovecot and amavisd. I'm unhappy with the problems I'm having with MailScanner, with the difficulty I've had with authentication as I am currently configured, and want to move to Maildir instead of mbox. That being said, is dovecot stable enough yet for production use? I only have four users on my home linux box, but I personally get around 500 emails a day (that fedora list is *busy*). Thanks, Ben
Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:> That being said, is dovecot stable enough yet for production use? I only > have four users on my home linux box, but I personally get around 500 emails > a day (that fedora list is *busy*).I use it in two such environments, one in an office with 10 users, most of whom are connected from inside the office itself for the whole day. It easily passes 500 mails across the network in 24 hours. The other is in a larger organisation with maybe 20 or 30 people connected at a time through various webmail clients. In both cases, it has behaved perfectly. It was also trivial to set up, particularly when contrasted with uw-imapd or courier. I'm using Jaldhar's Debian backports. And very nice they are too :-) regards, Steffen -- Steffen Higel Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, | e: Steffen.Higel at cs.tcd.ie Department of Computer Science, | w: http://netsoc.tcd.ie/~higels Trinity College Dublin | t: +353 (1) 6082361 pgp: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Steffen.Higel/higels.txt
Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:> Hi! > > I'm currently running RH 9 with postfix, uw-imap and MailScanner. I want to > install Fedora Core 2 (when it comes out next week) with postfix, dovecot > and amavisd. I'm unhappy with the problems I'm having with MailScanner, > with the difficulty I've had with authentication as I am currently > configured, and want to move to Maildir instead of mbox. > > That being said, is dovecot stable enough yet for production use? I only > have four users on my home linux box, but I personally get around 500 emails > a day (that fedora list is *busy*).I've "backported" the latest Red Hat development packages of Dovecot to Red Hat 9 (simply rebuilt the RPM), and have 150+ users using it. My server runs Sendmail (milter plugins require it for now), Dovecot (using Maildir), SpamAssassin (via procmail), ClamAV (via milter), and Anomy Sanitizer (via procmail). There are a couple of customflags annoyances between Mozilla based mail clients and Dovecot running Maildir, however it has otherwise proven quite stable in my enivronment. We process about 5-6000 mails per day. HTH, -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson at medata.com Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc