[ale] Cyrus -vs- Washington IMAP (and any others)

[Jonathan Glass]

Quoting "Nathan J. Underwood" <ale1 at cybertechcafe.net>:

> I'm in the process of replacing an NT4 / Exchange network with a *nix 
> (Linux, Samba, <mail server>) backend, and I'm to the mail stuff now. 
> It's going to be a Fedora setup, and I would really prefer to stick with 
> RPM packages rather than source so that updates can be handled (as much 
> as possible) via apt or yum.  I've used sendmail and qmail in the past, 
> and would prefer to use qmail (don't get me started on sendmail), but 
> I've not been able to find a qmail rpm.  Postfix looks like the next 
> best thing, so I've been tinkering with it (2 config files so far, I 
> love that) as an MTA.  Since they'll be moving from an Exchange world, 
> and they're used to never having to delete anything (again, don't get me 
> started) and being able to get access to the same 'picture' of their 
> mail from multiple locations (office, home, webmail), I believe IMAP 
> would be a better option than POP3.  They will have 3 servers when it's 
> all said and done, one will be the primary file server and acting PDC 
> (Samba 3 + LDAP), the other two will function as primary / secondary DNS 
> and DHCP servers, and the secondary will also function as a BDC 
> (slurpd).  In looking at available IMAP servers, it looks like 
> Washington and Cyrus are the two main players.  The big advantage of 
> Cyrus over Washington appears to be that there isn't a need for a local 
> account, which isn't really a big deal since all mail users will have 
> local accounts.  Any thoughts?  Should I consider Washington, or drive 
> on with Cyrus?  Any other input / suggestions would also be appreciated. 
>  I'm looking at using a SpamAssassin / ClamAV combo for av and anti-spam.
> 
> tia
> nathan
> --


Congratulations and good luck moving away from Exchange!

I just looked at my Fedora Core 2 box, and it has Cyrus and Postfix
pre-installed.  A cool command to look at is "alternatives", for switching MTAs.

I'm running Cyrus for IMAPS on my new mail server and it works fine.  I'm
actually configuring the two machines to use Heartbeat and DRBD for
high-availability (failover), and network-based RAID1 for the /home, /var/mail,
and /var/meetingmaker  directories.  Now the fun part...Friday I get to pull
some wires from the wall and see what happens!

Again, I have spamassassin integrated for incoming mail, and I believe the RPM
was available via "yum install spamassassin".  Unfortunately, I'm using McAfee
instead of ClamAV, so I cannot speak to that.

Feel free to call/email privately if you want to hash this out over the
phone...that's how I think best.  :)

Thanks

Jonathan Glass
SSSII IBB/GTEC
(404) 385-0127

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