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Adrian Midgley wrote: | | It is a fairly simple system - with the RAID being for the core data | only
Hmm. I think "simple" is when disk A and disk B are identically partitioned, and a nice mirrored pair - everything else is complex ;)
|> Hmm, time to go IMAP I think. | | I am of the same opinion, and for other reasons I might want to gain | experience with the IMAP-enabled version of VPOP3, but there is | something (or more than one thing) that I don't understand about IMAP | on Linux, yet, so I'm not going to break the production system.
There is a lot I don't understand about IMAP, doesn't stop me trusting my email to it, but maybe mine is less important on average.
I was very impressed with how well Outlook and Thunderbird work with IMAP these days, the old Mozilla mail client needed too much in the way of hints.
Of those IMAP servers I've tried so far - dovecot has the most explicit config file, which helped me understand what is happening. The UWIMAP server may do somethings better, but it does everything "by default", making it's workings "transparent" to the administrator as well as the user. The dovecot config file is well commented and the defaults are coded (but commented out - tsck - wait till they change but you keep the old config file....).
So you might try dovecot on GNU/Linux instead of VPOP. With mailbox format it really is "very simple" to see what is happening, and why. And you don't have to get involved in all that "namespace" stuff just to get people keeping their mail folders on a server. That said I would suggest you transition everything to maildir when (or before) implementing IMAP4, as it is far easier to do it then, than afterwards, and it should be more flexible long term. Still doesn't hurt to play with the simple cases first.
However I think uwimap is better for (my uninformed guess) at your needs than dovecot.
| Meanwhile, in other news, NHS buys 5000 copies of SUN Java Desktop. | I have to regard that as A Very Good Thing, at least hopeful.
On the one hand very welcome, on the other haven't they already paid to put Microsoft on those desktops.
| I shall say so when I am in London being a token professional presence | at meetings with part of NPfIT.
I believe Matt works for them now, although I don't think he had to change desks or anything to make the transfer. An executive agency to take over stray national IT requirements for the NHS, and presumably make 6% return on assets by billing health authorities and other bits of the NHS for their services if it is run anything like the other executive agencies I've worked for. The NHSIA's days are now numbered. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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