[MlMt] OffTopic: Server recommendations?

[Brad Knowles]

On Mar 26, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Benny Kjær Nielsen <mailinglist at freron.com> wrote:

> On 26 Mar 2015, at 17:59, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> 
> 	• I've had people recommend Zimbra and iRedmail.
> I don't know iRedmail. In my experience, Zimbra does not have one of the best IMAP servers available. It's also not one of the worst, but the worst are also really really bad (Groupwise comes to mind…).

IIRC, Zimbra is a fairly thin wrapper around postfix for the SMTP stuff and Dovecot for the IMAP stuff, plus some other bits that they added on.

> 	• And obviously, I need a good IMAP server for MailMate to use.
> Anything that uses Dovecot would be really good. Cyrus is also fine (used by Fastmail). Panda scores well in this dated test, but I'm not sure it's developed anymore :-(

I’ve been doing Internet mail systems administration for over twenty years, and in that time I have found that postfix and dovecot are two of the most reliable programs in this space.

That’s assuming that you configure them correctly, of course.  ;)


Now, these are CLI programs and do not have a friendly native GUI, nor do they have native integration with things like CalDAV, WebDAV, etc....

> Anything with an IMAP server implemented as an after-thought (Groupwise, Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook 365, GMX, and many more) is very likely to be buggy or primitive — or both.

But they gots the pretty, pretty GUI thingies, right?  I mean, that’s all you really need, right?  ;-) ;-) ;-)

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