Comments on: Running a home IMAP server on Ubuntu

by: Romain Wartel

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:20:54 +0000

I run Dovecot 1.0.rc2 on Ubuntu Edgy and I am afraid I would not recommend it in a production environment. When SSL is enabled, connections with Dovecot usually time out as soon as multiple operations are performed (ex= moving a group of emails from one directory to another), or when emails with large attachments are involved. Dovecot also seem to have difficulties handling lock files and again times out very often (I have not tried without SSL). Finally, it does not handle IMAP subdirectories, which requires console intervention when created.

I hope these issues are fixed in newer releases (1.0.rc27 as this time).

by: Arto Bendiken

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:23 +0000

I’ll add one more vote for Dovecot. Having used the other available daemons at one time or another, Dovecot is refreshingly simple and solid - perhaps simply by the virtue of it not yet having had the time to accumulate all the crufty layers that cover the others?

PS. Migration from UW-IMAP is covered in the Dovecot wiki.

by: Dan Muresan

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:41:59 +0000

Thanks, Patrick and Ted. I’ve updated the article to mention dovecot.

by: Ted Lemon

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:37:31 +0000

I’ve been using dovecot. Works a treat. Performance is great. I’ve never been able to get UW-IMAP to work properly. Cyrus was a real pain to set up, to the point where I eventually gave up. Dovecot was my third attempt, and I’ve never looked back.

by: patrick giagnocavo

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:34:54 +0000

Dovecot seems to be the current favorite, and it is easy to secure with SSL.