[CLUE-Tech] RHAT 9 IMAP recommendations?

[Jeffery Cann]

Greetings,

I am settup up mail services on a RHAT 9 box that lives on the internet 
(scary).  My MTA is postfix and it does not provide POP or IMAP.  According 
to the postfix FAQ, there are at least three projects that have been 
integrated with postfix:

# Cyrus IMAP implements IMAP, POP3, and KPOP, later versions also support TLS. 
This software implements its own private mail database system. Not for 
beginners.

# Courier-Imap provides POP3 and IMAP, and supports access over SSL. This 
software supports the maildir-style mailbox format only (one message per 
file, same format as qmail).

# Qpopper-supports POP3, TLS (SSL), and uses the traditional UNIX-style 
mailbox format (multiple messages per file, each message starts with "From 
sender date...")

Since I am a newbie at mail setup and administration, I solicit 
recommendations, warnings, and advice from the group from folks who are using 
postfix + red hat + IMAP.  I plan on using SSL for the transfer of mail and 
to protect account logins.

I also appreciate other pointers to good documentation (I read the rhat 
manuals and the postfix docs).

Thanks in advance.
Jeff
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