[howto] replace courier with dovecot

[javi]

Hi,

Now, about 8 weeks after migrating my server to ubuntu 8.10 + EBox (8.04 has some weakness doing special RAID constellation) + Dovecot + Getmail, I am very happy with the EBox-solution. Works great.

Good to hear. We should be shipping dovecot along with ebox-mail very soon and we will polish the rough edges you have found.

Thanks,

Javi

[sh1ny]

This is nice to hear. I am currently migrating from debian -> ubuntu and cyrus -> dovecot, and ebox sounds too good with dovecot support built in !

[corona]

Hello again. 4 months on and the server has been rock solid with dovecot, certainly very happy with it. The only niggling problem I have with it is that I can't install the ebox-mail-filter package. I would really like to add the spam filter back onto the server, as I used to be very happy with its performace pre-ebox.

The package has dependancies with ebox-mail and wont be satisfied with ebox-mail-dovecot so wont install.

I'll have a go at installing it manually on the backup server as a test, but by memory it's got quite a few steps to getting it going (spamassassin/amavis/clamav) and I can't afford any downtime on the main server.

Cheers,
Andrew

[sh1ny]

Yea would be really great to have dovecot in ebox before it goes 1.0

[javi]

We actually have it It's scheduled for the next stable release 1.2. But I guess we could try backport it to 1.0