[Kolab-devel] Dovecot as imap server (was: Kolab on Gmail)

[Richard Bos]

Op maandag 4 augustus 2008 07:51, schreef Richard Bos:
> Op Thursday 24 July 2008 17:19:30 schreef Bernhard Reiter:
> > On Wednesday 16 July 2008 16:40, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> > > The Kolab concept is based on this annotation support but so far the
> > > feature is only being provided by the Cyrus IMAP server. In addition
> > > the Kolab Server uses some patches in that area which means that you
> > > always need a full Kolab Server as a basis for Kolab specific
> > > development.
> >
> > Note that we are currently looking into what it takes to beef
> > up Dovecot to play nicely as IMAP server within a Kolab Server.
>
> Do you mean a full replacement of the cyrus server including acl and
> annotation support?  Would that result in an imap server that does not need
> to be patched.  Currently with cyrus the patch situation is rather
> hopeless:
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab-major-app-patches#Cyrus_IMAPD If so
> (no patches to be applied) I'm very much looking forward to dovecot as the
> imap server for kolab!

Is replication supported?  According this message:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-May/030446.html it looks like it is 
being implemented....  Is that sufficient for kolab?

-- 
Richard Bos
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