Support for Postfixm, Maildirs and Courier-imap?

[kajayr]

I recently moved my environment from Fedora Core 4 (using qmail, maildir and dovecot) to SuSE 10.0 I could not get qmail working correctly, so spent some time learning the SuSE default email system (Postfix) with Courier-imap. I initially found Postfix quite demanding, but now that I have it working am very pleased with its performance and ability to control spam at my "border crossing".

I recently travelled away from home and did not always have ability to use secure imap facility for Outlook. Webmail would have been very useful. Upon returning home I have researched the various offerings for webmail and came across Scalix. I am impressed by its features and managed to install without difficulty on my SuSE 10.0 server. But it insisted on disabling of Postfix and Courier-imap. (OK they are not supported...)

Lack of support for a variety of MTA / imap handlers seems to defeat the concept of open-source. Arguably Postfix is superior to and more flexible than Sendmail. I would gladly use Scalix permanently, except that I do not wish to spend time learning the ins and outs of another MTA (Sendmail).

I have now settled for SqWebMail (very basic) which only handles email in my environment. It is fast, without too many bugs. But..., I would much prefer to use Scalix with it superb design and functionality, were it not for incompatiblity with my MTA.

How long before Scalix puts out a version supporting Postfix, Maildirs and alternative imap servers?

KJR

[ScalixSupport]

Thanks for the feedback.

Sendmail vs Postfix, RedHat vs SUSE and Kirk vs Picard are the three most common divisions I've seen in the Linux world :-) When I'm asked "Why don't you use Postfix ?", my immediate response is "Why don't you use Sendmail ?". In reality, for the purposes of Scalix, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that I have needed to edit one of the sendmail rules. The fact of the matter is that 101% of all the changes I've needed to make to accomodate customer requests with outbound mail processing have been to edit the configuration options at the top of the file or to add a line to local-host-names or mailertable. None of it required attempting to read the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that are the rules.

We recognise that for SUSE customers, Postfix is the default mailer so we're definitely looking at integration with Postfix for a later release. Please don't press me for when, just trust me that we're looking at it.

With regards to Maildirs, there is no intention to support this at the present time. Our message store is in a binary format which has been optimised for performance. Similarly, there are no plans to support alternative IMAP servers as the one we provide supports extensions to allow us to provide the calendaring features and MAPI coexistence that makes us so fully featured.

Hope that answers your questions

Cheers

Dave

[kajayr]

I appreciate your response. I will keep a lookout for a future release with support for Postfix. I guess I can live without Maildirs / Courier-imap, I just do not fancy switching to Sendmail at this point.
Regards
KJR