[BUGS] Remote backups, imap too

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 08/12/2007, at 8:22 AM, John Marshall wrote:

> 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.

Right of course, just in the past when I had looked into imap it  
seemed that
everyone suggested using qmail.. I forget why, and thinking about it  
I see
no reason why the MTA you use should have any impact on IMAP..

To be honest I'm not completely sure how imap works, but it should only
require a server and client, no changes to the MTA?

> 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/>

My main concern is ease of backing up the mail box.. Do you know off
hand if there is a way to deny deleting of mail?

Cheers,
J.