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distribution). Changes from version 2.2.1 include:
* Honor ${VARBASE}.
* courierlogger(1) has been moved to mail/courier-auth.
* Use the sysconftool from courier-auth to merge config files.
* The courier* rc.d scripts now check that authdaemond is also set to
"YES" to ensure that authdaemond is running before the courier-imap
daemons are started.
* Support for the ACL IMAP extension (RFC 2086 as well as the 2nd draft
revision of the ACL specification) via shared maildirs.
* Bug fixes and improvements to MIME encoding.
* Fixes buffer overflow vulnerability (PR 25774):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9845
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0224
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Courier-IMAP is a server that provides IMAP access to maildirs. This IMAP
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server does NOT handle traditional mailbox files (/var/spool/mail, and
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derivatives), it was written for the specific purpose of providing IMAP
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access to maildirs.
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"Maildir" is a directory-based mail storage format originally introduced
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in the Qmail mail server, and adopted as an alternative mail storage
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format by both Exim and Postfix. Courier-IMAP is popular on
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Qmail/Exim/Postfix sites that are configured to use maildirs. The primary
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advantage of maildirs is that multiple applications can access the same
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maildir simultaneously without requiring any kind of locking whatsoever.
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It is a faster and more efficient way to store mail. It works particularly
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well over NFS, which has a long history of locking-related woes.
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