Dovecot & vm-pop3d

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Hi,

Can someone tell what the differents is betwee Dovecot and vmpop3d.

I think Dovecot is realy populair the last time.
 
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Dovecot isn't a replacement of Exim. It's a replacement of vmpop3d.
 
The homepage for vm-pop3d can be found here.

vm-pop3d is a POP only mail-server and was the pop server of choice for early versions of DirectAdmin because at that time DirectAdmin didn't support IMAP.

I don't know if DA staff added IMAP on my request or not, but I do know that I wrote them (years ago) and explained that I really liked DA but I couldn't use it unless it also offered IMAP because my clients were already using IMAP on their Cobalt RaQs and on their Plesk-based accounts.

Soon afterward, DirectAdmin started also offering the WU-IMAP daemon so we could also offer IMAP accounts.

But one of both of those daemons (I don't remember which) would only work with the mbox mail format. And many of us, experienced with the Maildir format, asked for support for that in DirectAdmin.

Since it wasn't possible to directly support Maildir for DirectAdmin with the default pop and imap servers, vm-pop3d and WU-IMAP, DA staff created an optional Dovecot installation.

Dovecot (homepage here) is now what many of us use.

Jeff
 
I have used IMAP with vm-pop3d with no problem. I don't know when I first tried it but it worked the first time. I think it was last year some time.
 
I don't think so, I think you're using IMAP with the imap daemon, or with an imap server running through either inetd or xinetd. Because vm-pop3d doesn't support imap.

Never did.

Look at the vm-pop3d specifications.

Jeff
 
I see what you are saying. vm-pop3d doesn't support imap directly. You are right I am running imap through xinetd. I didn't know there was another way. I always install xinetd as part of the default installation and so it has always worked for me.
 
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