[BUGS] Remote backups, imap too

[John Marshall]

Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> And totally unrelated to this, anyone care to recommend an imap
> mail server for bsd? I'v only ever used sendmail..

Sendmail is an MTA, not a mailbox store. If you want to set up a mailbox 
server, you still need an MTA like Sendmail to take delivery of incoming 
mail.

I have been using Dovecot (FreeBSD ports: mail/dovecot) as a mailbox 
server on a couple of different FreeBSD servers for the past year and it 
hasn't bitten me yet. In my setup, Dovecot's MDA (Dovecot deliver) takes 
the incoming mail from Sendmail and stores it in Maildir directories. 
Dovecot gives you the options of one or all of IMAP/POP3/IMAPS/POP3S for 
  user connection to their mailboxes.
<http://www.dovecot.org/>

On those mailbox servers, I also run SquirrelMail (FreeBSD port: 
mail/squirrelmail) as a web mail interface for users. SquirrelMail will 
talk directly to Maildir mailboxes or access them via an IMAP server. I 
have it doing the latter.
<http://www.squirrelmail.org/>

I haven't used any other mailbox server or webmail server software. I 
did spend a while trying to configure a couple of others but found the 
above suited me best. A significant factor in my case was that I had 
invested a lot of time in Sendmail customization (particularly to do 
with spam filtering) and wanted to retain Sendmail as my MTA.

Hope this helps.

-- 
John Marshall