[NBLUG/talk] Remote mail access

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:59:36PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Saturday 11 February 2006 22:30, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> > http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> > http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html
> > http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html
> 
> If I'm reading this correctly, then this means that SSU is running qmail and 
> Courier IMAP behind the scenes (presumably all that most users see is the 
> SquirrelMail interface via their web browser)?  Considering how widespread 
> its use seems to be (and it seems to work pretty well), I take it that those 
> programs work pretty well.

Errr.  No.  Close, though.

Maildir originated with qmail, so the Maildir format's documentation is on
the qmail site.  Err, technically both Maildir and qmail started with Daniel
Bernstein and qmail was the first mail server to implement it.

SSU runs exim and Courier IMAP behind the scenes.

Probably most students just see the SquirrelMail interface and most faculty
and staff get to their email with a desktop mail client via IMAP or POP.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend qmail.  Partially because I really like
free/open-source software and qmail isn't quite that.  Partially because
I've dealt with qmail a lot, and while it's definitely got some nice
features and a good security model, it always ends up annoying me. (exim and
postfix are what I'd currently recommend)
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Eric Eisenhart
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