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

["Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <buanzo@buanzo.com.ar>]

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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 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?

FTP to access the maildir, you mean? ssh for sftp? (same purpose)?

> Thanks for the heads up then. Is the slowness attibuted to lookups to
> passwords or some other issues?

storage format and concurrency. with the same hardware, courier-imap outperformed dovecot.
at least in most scenarios I've tested, or been told about.

> Hmm... I see a general preference towards courier here.

Been there, just that :) - I been sticking around with linux and free software since.... well, a lot
of time ago. the kernel was like 3 years old then :)

> Just curious,
> have you tried cyrus at all? If yes, what are it's shortcomings?

Yep. I worked for SuSE for along time, and it's an excellent product (cyrus+postfix being the
preference at that time, I can't tell now), but mail systems should be simple enough, and cyrus
tends to add a couple of steps that turn it into unusable for a beginner admin.


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Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar
Consultor en Seguridad Informatica
President, Open Information System Security Group - Argentina
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