[Kolab-devel] Dovecot as imap server

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl> writes:

> 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?

I'm not aware that we'd be using replication with the Cyrus server at
the moment. At least not by default.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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