[OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

[David Brodbeck]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:

>
> Strange, this is exactly why IMAP was created. I run my own mail server
> using spamdyke for SMTP and dovecot for IMAP.  I have a dozen of mobile and
> desktop devices that read and send mail and don't have an issue.


My experience was that different IMAP clients using the same mailbox would
"fight" each other over which emails were deleted, which were new, which
were in different folders, etc. The result was a mess.  Email showed up
twice, email went missing, email ended up in unexpected places, and junk
status messages got inserted (I'm looking at you, Pine.)  I also use email
sorting rules extensively to manage mail from mailing lists, and having to
re-create the same rules on each and every client (some of which were not
really capable of it) was very tiresome.

  I have been running for many years without a single change to the
> configuration files.  I used to have my own spam control software since I
> ran a SunOS server, once I discovered spamdyke I never looked back.
> Stellar spam control and always stable.  The developer runs several
> cpu-days of regressions before releasing a new version.
>

I used spamassassin back in the day, plus some ad hoc rules in Exim.