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

[Stephan Uphoff]

I am talking about Cyrus .... 

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	Stephan


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:30, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> A friend of mine is using it for 30k+ accounts and recommended it.
> I installed it a few month ago for just two accounts and it was
> easy and painless. The documentation is good and for simple installs
> you should be done in an hour. (This includes skimming the necessary
> documents).
> 
> 	Stephan
> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 22:28, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> > 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
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