Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot)

["Ian P. Christian" <pookey@pookey.co.uk>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1082 bytes --]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 05:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Just curious,
> have you tried cyrus at all? If yes, what are it's shortcomings?

I used cyrus. I used to use courier but having looked at cyrus realized what I 
was missing. The Maildir format uses a transactional databates to keep it's 
indexes up to date, so it's faster then courier.  

It does support clustering too, although I've never done it.

I am not sure how you would get it to authenticate against multiple 
authentication backends - I've never neeeded to do so.  I use it in a virtual 
hosting environment, and whilst there are local users, they are not tied 
1-to-1 to a mailbox. This does mean that if people want to run pine (or 
similar) from the mail server they have to use IMAP, but in my case this 
isn't a problem at all.

Cyrus also supports shared folders and ACLs - not something Courier provides, 
so if you are ever likely to use this, Cyrus is also the one to choose.

I'm not sure Courier supports IDLE either.

Kind Regards,

-- 
Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk

[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]