Hi! * Fraser Campbell <fraser@georgetown.wehave.net> [2004-06-08 15:16]: > I'm looking for some information about the cyrus email system. Is cyrus worth > it? Is it significantly more management overhead than a more typical > user/imap system? We have been using it for more than half a year now. At the beginning it was strange that Users didn't get a mailbox automatically but it turns out to be an advantage for us (seperating different types of User Accounts). > Currently I am using postfix/courier-imap/mysql to manage all email and I'm > very happy with it, my customers can create their own email accounts and > manage their own aliases. We are using postfix/cyrus here where postfix is delivering mail locally via lmtp and cyrus authenticates Users using saslauthd/pam. In a testing environment we are experimenting with LDAP at the moment and it works quite nicely. > However, I'd like to make a more polished "product" and I'm wondering if cyrus > offers any significant advantages. I've been hunting for a blow-by-blow > comparison of cyrus versus "standard" mail implementations but haven't found > much. AFAICT the major advantage is scalability. Although our user base is quite small (~300) it's supposed to work perfectly for ten-thousands of Users. Another cool thing - which we don't yet use - is the mail-partition feature which alows you to spread the Users mailboxes over differnt file-systems. We decided to use Cyrus because it brings IMAP and POP3 support in one 'package' and it perfectly supports TLS/SSL secured connections. Hope that is usefull. Cheers -- Jogi Hofmueller - mur.at ICQ: 284632332 Tel.: +43 316 821451 55 |#| http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/h/hacker.html
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