[WBEL-users] Replacement for imapd?

[Raymond Lillard]

Benjamin Smith wrote:
> I'm using sendmail/Imapd as configured by default so that email resides on the 
> server and is backed up. 
> 
> However, we're heavy email users, and parsing a 100 MB mail spool file is 
> starting to whale the tar out of our itty bitty mail server. 
> 
> What recommendations do you have to replace the default imapd for imap 
> support? Something with better performance, decent compatability, and that 
> doesn't stop me from backing up email easily to tape or disk2disk.... 

I've been having good results with Dovecot.  Use the Maildir
format rather than mbox files.

Ray