Managing IMAP book

[Bill Earle]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Amos wrote:

> Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> > FC3 and RHEL4 include two IMAP servers, Dovecot and Cyrus.  Dovecot
> > seems to be the choice for small installations and/or novice admins that
> > were using wu-imapd on older distributions.  Basically it is drop-in
> > replacement for uw-imapd.  Cyrus is included for admins that need
> > advanced IMAP server.
>
> Oh, and I forgot that Apple's OS X Server comes with Cyrus for the
> IMAP/POP service.
>
> > Anyhow, I hope that this inclusion will warrant new book.  More people
> > will probably try out Cyrus now that it comes neatly packaged with
> > reasonable default configuration files.  Plus, it seems that many people
> > do not know that Dovecot is IMAP server ;-)
>
> If folks are interested in seeing an update, I would recommend sending
> such requests to O'Reilly. They certainly won't approve an update if
> there's no indication of demand.
>
> Of course if an update is approved, it would be sad if it came out and
> then immediately afterwards 2.3 was released, but then I guess that's
> life in the software world.


2.3 should be pretty close to being released. If an update was done
now, I think it should be targeted toward 2.3, with the expectation
that 2.3 would be out before the book is pressed and the feature set
of 2.3 is not going to change drastically. But that's only my opinion.


- Bill


> Amos
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