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+date: "2004-10-10T12:47:04Z"
+title: Response to WP Article
+---
+
+Here's an email I just sent in response to <a href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A10089-2004Mar20&notFound=true'>this  Washington Post article</a>.
+
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>
+Hi Rob,
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I just read "Internet Providers Should Find Their Way to IMAP" [1], your
+article on migrating email from POP3 to IMAP.  I'm a UNIX system
+administrator and programmer by day, and, as a hobby, I provide email
+and web site hosting for a handful of family members, friends, and small
+businesses.  I'd like to share my experience configuring various mail
+servers (also referred to as daemons), and offer some advice for readers
+asking about IMAP or looking for a decent email client, and for ISPs
+touting the high cost of providing IMAP service.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For readers looking for a decent email client, I recommend Mozilla
+Thunderbird [2].  Thunderbird is free, easy to use, and available for
+several operating systems.  Thunderbird is also small (about the size
+of a decent quality MP3 file), and easy to install; my parents were able
+to switch from Outlook to Thunderbird without any assistance from me or
+their ISP.  Best of all, Thunderbird is immune to existing email worms
+and viruses, has powerful built-in spam filtering, supports signed and
+encrypted email, and can communicate with secure email servers (POP3s
+and IMAPs).  Oh, Mac users might want to try Mail [3], which comes
+pre-installed in recent versions of MacOS and supports many of the
+features I mentioned above.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As for ISPs, offering IMAP can be a real pain.  Three of the most
+popular IMAP daemons are Cyrus IMAPd, Courier IMAPd, and UW-IMAP [4].
+The problem with all of them is essentially the same: each requires
+complicated and haphazard configuration, and none integrate gracefully
+with existing server configurations.  For example, the IMAP daemons
+listed above store email messages on the server in MH or Maildir format,
+while most UNIX systems and POP3 daemons store email messages in mbox
+format.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The solution?  An IMAP daemon called Dovecot [5].  Dovecot is a free
+POP3 and IMAP daemon which supports mbox and Maildir mail spool formats,
+supports IMAPs and POP3s, and is incredibly easy to set up.  In Debian
+Linux [6], Dovecot basically configures itself.  Dovecot also supports
+the most common user authentication schemes out of the box: PAM,
+/etc/passwd, and LDAP.  Dovecot works great in Linux and Solaris (the
+two most common UNIX variants used by ISPs), and also in other operating
+systems such as FreeBSD and MacOS.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I'm available to answer questions from readers about IMAP and IMAP
+daemons.  I can be reached via email at pabs@pablotron.org or
+paul@paulduncan.org.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+References:
+</p>
+
+<ol>
+<li>"Internet Providers Should Find Their Way to IMAP": <a href='http://tinyurl.com/5kzbc'>http://tinyurl.com/5kzbc</a></li>
+<li>Mozilla Thunderbird: <a href='http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/'>http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/</a></li>
+<li>Apple Mail: <a href='http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/'>http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/</a></li>
+<li>Cyrus, Courier, and UW-IMAP: <a
+href='http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/'>http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/</a>, 
+   <a href='http://www.courier-mta.org/'>http://www.courier-mta.org/</a>, and <a href='http://www.washington.edu/imap/'>http://www.washington.edu/imap/</a>
+   (respectively)</li>
+<li>Dovecot: <a href='http://www.dovecot.org/'>http://www.dovecot.org/</a></li>
+<li>Debian Linux: <a href='http://www.debian.org/'>http://www.debian.org/</a></li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>
+--<br />
+Paul Duncan &lt;<a href='mailto:pabs@pablotron.org'>pabs@pablotron.org</a>&gt;<br />
+<a href='http://www.pablotron.org/'>http://www.pablotron.org/</a>
+</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<b>Update:</b> Changed the <acronym title='Washington Post'>WP</acronym>
+<acronym title='Uniform Resource Locator'>URL</acronym> to a <a
+href='http://tinyurl.com/'>TinyURL</a> link instead, in order to fix
+page reflow.
+</p>
+