Before migrating to 10.6 Server we were running our entire mailstore on the 10.5.8 platform. Say what you will about Leopard, once we had it set up correctly it ran fine. We migrated because of the greater benefits of Dovecot over Cyrus. Many of the other features intriqued us as well such as the improved Wiki server and iCal server. However we were really excited about Dovecots ability to repair itself basically doing away with the need to ever have to rebuild a users mailbox.

The one great thing about 10.5.8 was the development of Mailbfr this was an amazing script that would help you backup your entire mailstore, recover email accounts, repair quotas, and of course rebuild or repair the entire mail-store. This was an invaluable tool, however since switching we have had to come up with our own solution. Read more..