[HN Gopher] Courier Mail Server
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       Courier Mail Server
        
       Author : SiempreViernes
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2021-03-29 12:10 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.courier-mta.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.courier-mta.org)
        
       | sigio wrote:
       | I have been running Courier (for imap) for years, quite happy
       | with it. I usually run it together with postfix for SMTP. and use
       | virtual accounts with courier's authdaemon.
       | 
       | Funny to see this on the frontpage for the first time
        
       | Scramblejams wrote:
       | I've been running this for the better part of two decades for
       | SMTP/IMAP/POP, but I want more, like fulltext search via IMAP.
       | Considering moving to Mailcow for a more full-featured
       | experience, without having to tie all the different parts
       | together myself. Thoughts?
        
       | edoceo wrote:
       | Wow! I used to use this one but switched to Dovecot for IMAP like
       | a decade ago. IIRC it was related to SQL integration. Maybe I
       | should give it another look, at least update my docs.
        
       | dsr_ wrote:
       | I don;'t know anybody who uses Courier as an MTA, but the
       | maildrop/mailfilter language is superb: you can write a decent
       | filter after five minutes of reading the man page; it will be
       | readable by non-experts, reasonably performant, and debuggable.
        
         | throw0101a wrote:
         | Doesn't one need server-side access to do this?
         | 
         | I was under the impression that for client-accessible filtering
         | Sieve was now the way to do things.
         | 
         | *
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language...
        
           | aidenn0 wrote:
           | Nope, both fetchmail and getmail can deliver to a local
           | MDA[fixed], and that's how I filter my incoming mail with
           | maildrop into a set of maildirs.
        
             | throwaway823882 wrote:
             | if they're delivering to procmail or maildrop they're
             | delivering to an MDA; if they're delivering to a local mail
             | server, it's either an MTA or MDA (but almost always MDA)
        
               | aidenn0 wrote:
               | Thanks, fixed.
        
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