Re: ISP setup

[charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu>]

Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:06:59AM -0700, Charles wrote:
>
> > I'm looking at the step by step instructions included at
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_sarge, and I have a
> > few questions that relate to local implementation and some different
> > assumptions, as follows:
>
>
> on the whole, a reasonable howto but it does contain some broken advice.
>
>
> 1. don't use uw-imapd. ever. it's garbage. if you want a pop/imap daemon
> that supports both mbox and Maildir (as well as both SSL encrypted and
> unencrypted connections), then use Dovecot. Courier's OK too if you just
> need Maildir support, but i prefer Dovecot.

Craig,
	Would your answer be different if the goal was to only support
SSL-encrypted pop/imap connections? (no unencrypted traffic)


	thanks much in advance if you have the time to answer,
		~c