# The mail/courier-imap,-main port

## courier-imap-4.10.0p3 – imap server for maildir format mailboxes

## Description

    Courier-IMAP is a server that provides IMAP access to Maildirs
    mailboxes. 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.

    The Courier-IMAP implements some extensions to the basic Maildir mail
    storage format in order to support some additional features, such as
    folders and "soft" quotas. This is done in a way that's backwards
    compatible with the standard Maildir users (although, of course, they
    will ignore the additional features). Other software that understands
    and uses the same Maildir extensions is SqWebMail, and maildrop.

    "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.

    It is part of the Courier mail server (http://www.courier-mta.org) but
    can be configured as a standalone IMAP server.

    Features include an extremely small memory footprint, abstract
    authentication modules (e.g. /etc/passwd, LDAP, PAM), virtual mailbox
    support, resource controls, SSL/TLS, and IPv6 support.

WWW: http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/

Multi-packages
  courier-imap-4.10.0p3 courier-pop3-4.10.0p2
Categories:
  mail

## Library dependencies

- STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext
- converters/libiconv
- converters/libiconv
- databases/gdbm
- devel/libidn
- mail/courier-authlib

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext
- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff
- archivers/bzip2
- devel/gmake

## Run dependencies

- STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext
- converters/libiconv