BSD Portsmail/courier-imap 5.2.6nb2 NetBSD
IMAP server for access to maildir-style mailboxes
- System
- NetBSD
- Repository
- pkgsrc
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- Last update
- Commit
7b5a3977f9- License
- gnu-gpl-v3
- Categories
- Package size
- 197.1 KiB, 593.6 KiB installed
Description
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.
This package differs from a vanilla Courier-IMAP installation in that the files are installed at locations that more closely correspond to a Courier installation.
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 6.0.7, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetBSD | mail/courier-imap | 5.2.6nb2 | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-09-29 |
| FreeBSD | mail/courier-imap | 6.0.7,2 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-10-01 |
| OpenBSD | mail/courier-imap | 5.2.10p1 | no data | - | Giovanni Bechis <[email protected]> | - |
| DragonFly | mail/courier-imap | 5.2.10_1,2 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| MidnightBSD | mail/courier-imap | 6.0.6,2 | no data | - | [email protected] | 2026-08-09 |
| HardenedBSD | mail/courier-imap | 6.0.6_1,2 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | mail/courier-imap | 6.0.6_1,2 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkgin install courier-imapFrom pkgsrc:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/mail/courier-imap && make install cleanPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | Version |
|---|---|
| NetBSD 10.1 x86_64 | 5.2.6nb2 |
| NetBSD 10.1 aarch64 | 5.2.6nb1 |
| SmartOS / illumos x86_64 | - |
| macOS 15 arm64 | - |
Dependencies
Run dependencies 6
No port depends on this one.