From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E34sZ-0000kD-E2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:41:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7B4d0bF013768; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:39:00 GMT Received: from wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com (wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com [129.253.170.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7B4cxJ1022232 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:38:59 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([129.253.107.157]) by wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:39:45 -0700 Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7B4db7a009809 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:39:37 +0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42FAD180.3030902@buanzo.com.ar> References: <1123731973.5878.30.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <42FAD180.3030902@buanzo.com.ar> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:39:36 +0800 Message-Id: <1123735176.5878.36.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Aug 2005 04:39:45.0500 (UTC) FILETIME=[B2C709C0:01C59E2E] X-Archives-Salt: 6c6d1e1b-e66c-4600-a57f-654dcf36738c X-Archives-Hash: d5dec2aa63bfd31d560cebaf42716c11 On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 01:18 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > 1. Ability to do Virtual Mail Hosting > > courier-mta > > > 2. Ability to support local Users (see note) > > > Courier. I had both local (/etc/passwd) accounts, and virtual-domain+user accounts on the same > server (7000+ accounts total, SQL+/etc/passwd (via PAM)) Just wondering, can I say, have a virtual domain user user1@localdomain (where localdomain is really local but just hosted as a virtual domain) which can have SSH/FTP access using the same password to access their email? > > > 3. Scalable > > Courier-MTA (includes courier-imap) > > DON'T THINK ABOUT DOVECOT for really scalable installations. after 5000+ it gets quite slow. Thanks for the heads up then. Is the slowness attibuted to lookups to passwords or some other issues? > > 4. Support for flat file Passwords(/etc/passwd) or LDAP/MySQL > > Courier-MTA (includes courier-imap) Hmm... I see a general preference towards courier here. Just curious, have you tried cyrus at all? If yes, what are it's shortcomings? Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:36:43 up 5:10, 6 users, load average: 1.76, 0.88, 0.66 -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list