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| author | zuntum <zuntum> | 2001-11-01 00:57:41 +0000 |
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| committer | zuntum <zuntum> | 2001-11-01 00:57:41 +0000 |
| commit | 0b6b506536c1ff50f1531d26be2fccfe86c74335 (patch) | |
| tree | 93b6296152ccfbaa88b43de043b2d69ce6e63fc5 /mail/courier-imap/DESCR | |
| parent | 1b9f41a39161bad144fdeb94a0e51fa8ba7c309a (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-0b6b506536c1ff50f1531d26be2fccfe86c74335.tar.gz | |
Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory
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diff --git a/mail/courier-imap/DESCR b/mail/courier-imap/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..36913a71e03 --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/courier-imap/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +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. |