is dovecot really better than uw-imapd?

[Marc Lucke]

I'd like to query whether most agree that dovecot is better than 
uw-imapd & whether it is going to remain a part of the Fedora/Redhat 
projects and is therefore worthwhile sticking with?  I say this because 
I am seriously considering going back to uw-imapd.  I think dovecot is 
much slower - & without apparent reason - on 2 systems that I have 
changed over (one an older machine running FC1 and another a newer 
system with FC2) that ran uw-imapd a lot faster.  Also I keep getting a 
really irritating "invalid mask" error that I never got with uw-imapd.

I'm doing more research before throwing the bath water out with the baby.

I've heard positive stuff on this list about dovecot - has anyone else 
had my sort of problems?  Anyone fixed them?

Oh - I do access the email via from multiple machines Squirrel-mail, 
Thunderbird & sometimes my collegue will also go in & have a look so 
simultaneous access is possible.  I know that dovecot is not designed to 
share the mailbox (or Linux isn't - whatever) but uw-imapd never seemed 
to have a problem.


Marc