Mailserver Selection

This feature allows you to choose whether you wish to enable Courier or Dovecot as your mail server. Additionally, you may disable IMAP and POP3 servers.

To select or disable a mail server:

1. Select Courier, Dovecot, or Disabled.
2. If you wish to preserve users’ mailbox settings (such as subscriptions and information about which messages have been read), click the Convert mailbox settings… checkbox.
   • Note: Choosing not to preserve the settings may result in a faster migration between mail servers.
3. Click Save.

Courier vs. Dovecot

Courier is the traditional IMAP server installed by cPanel, and is extremely reliable. However, Dovecot uses less memory, provides better performance, and is more configurable.

For detailed information about Courier and Dovecot, see:

• http://www.courier-mta.org
• http://www.dovecot.org