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Re: Just a question



* David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [01-04-2004 13:16]:

> As for WU-IMAPd, I like it more than Cyrus, because I find the folder
> layout more logical.  I'm not wedded to it, though, and if my experiment
> with FUSE (rewriting my address book manager into a filesystem) turns out
> to be a success, the whole IMAPd mess is going to be replaced by a brand
> new daemon that'll maintain a virtual mail filesystem (similar to Plan9's
> mailfs) from an mbox backend.  (If I feel like it, I'll also code up some
> Mutt support for it.  (It'll be 100% reliable by design, and depending
> on implementation can probably be made arbitrarily efficient, since the
> entire mbox can theoretically be cached without race conditions.)  Else,
> I'll just write a trivial IMAPd to feed Mutt from the virtual filesystem.)

I recently switched from uw-imapd (wasn't that what you meant, Dave?) to
dovecot.  Simply because I was annoyed by the fact that a standard
uw-imapd compile included the mbox driver, which automatically moves
e-mail from the spool file to my mbox.

Dovecot is pretty fast and reliable.  I like it.

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