Re: Cyrus or Courier?
On 16 May 2001 13:18:23 +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2001 20:49, Haim Dimermanas wrote:
> > I am in the process of setting up an email system that will host
> > thousands of domains, many aliases per domain as well as forwarding
> > capabilities on a per-domain basis.
>
> I am currently doing exactly the same thing.
Funnily enough, so am I.
> > As far as the MTA is concerned, my choice is postfix. After reading the
> > postfix-users mailing for a week (~60 msg a day), I think I got a good
> > feeling about how postfix works.
Why don't you use courier's mta?
> I have heard reports that Cyrus doesn't scale well for more than 20,000
> users. I want 100,000 or more so I think it won't do the job.
Wierd, Cyrus was made for this type scenario.....
> Also Cyrus uses it's own database for mail storage. I don't want that, I
> want to use Maildir so that I can use the range of Maildir based utility
> programs.
The main downside of the cyrus db is that its apparantly not NFS safe,
however maildir is.
> I am using LDAP not a database. LDAP allows replication and OpenLDAP is
I too am using LDAP. However there are two problems with it:
1) it does not appear that courier will natively handle partitioning
domains in ldap via ou's and the like. They all have to be in the same
tree
2) there does not appear to be a native catchall ability using ldap
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