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diff --git a/network/courier-imap/README b/network/courier-imap/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3254e9e568 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/courier-imap/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The Courier IMAP server is a fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP server +that uses Maildirs. Many E-mail service providers use the Courier IMAP +server to easy handle hundreds of thousands of mail accounts. With its +built-in IMAP and POP3 aggregation proxy, the Courier IMAP server has +practically infinite horizontal scalability. In a proxy configuration, +a pool of Courier servers service initial IMAP and POP3 connections +from clients. They wait to receive the client's log in request, look +up the server that actually holds this mail account's mailbox, and +establish a proxy connection to the server, all in a single, seamless +process. Mail accounts can be moved between different servers, to +achieve optimum resource usage. |