addition of keywords on Maildir messages, use of FAM if it exists to
allow simultaneous access to the same Maildir from multiple clients,
and fixed handling of DELETEd messages and the Trash folder.
bug fixes, plus the major change of moving the authentication modules into
a separate package (courier-auth). The authentication modules are to be
shared with a forthcoming sqwebmail package.
Makefile into package and common parts to facilitate creating sub-packages
for the separate authentication modules, and using the general INSTALL
scripts. Changes from version 1.3.8.2 include:
* bug fixes
* move authentication modules into a separate daemon process
* partial support of the IMAP QUOTA extension.
* added experimental PostgreSQL authentication module.
* added experimental LDAP_TLS option to LDAP authentication.
* workarounds for Outlook
* Disable MSIE 6.0 smart tags in all html files
mail/courier-maildirmake.
* There was an inverted test in the rc.d scripts that was causing them to
fail on newer NetBSD systems.
* Install the rc.d scripts under ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d, not in ${PREFIX}/etc.
four scripts (courier-{imap,imaps,pop,pops}) that are rc.d-style scripts
to start/stop the various Courier IMAP and POP3 services. They were
modelled after the samba scripts which may be invoked on systems without
rc.d.
Courier-IMAP is a server that provides IMAP access to Maildirs. This IMAP
server does NOT handle traditional mailbox files (/var/spool/mail, and
derivatives), it was written for the specific purpose of providing IMAP
access to Maildirs.
"Maildir" is a directory-based mail storage format originally introduced
in the Qmail mail server, and adopted as an alternative mail storage
format by both Exim and Postfix. Courier-IMAP is popular on
Qmail/Exim/Postfix sites that are configured to use maildirs. The primary
advantage of maildirs is that multiple applications can access the same
Maildir simultaneously without requiring any kind of locking whatsoever.
It is a faster and more efficient way to store mail. It works particularly
well over NFS, which has a long history of locking-related woes.
