using Cyrus was Re: [CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Wed Dec 7 14:46:07 UTC 2005
>>> cyrus is such a pain, and requires more horsepower on a single box.
>>> It is better to run five really crappy cheap servers using courier
>>> over NFS
> speaking from experience. I have used both extensively, and both are
> excellent, but I would not leave a cyrus installation in the hands of a
> newbie, whereas courier is alot easier to support for people who do not
> specialize in mail servers. I dont think its FUD to say that cyrus is
> something that an advanced admin may prefer, and a nice thing about
> courier is that if you find an old spare machine laying around it is
> very easy to integrate into your mail cluster. And a failed courier box
> does not affect the rest of the cluster. When a cyrus box fails, there
> is no doubt downtime, and you need to know how to fix it as opposed to
> just reinstalling another courier box and copying the config files.
You left out the horsepower bit.
Have you ever ran courier-imap with IDLE support in conjunction with
fam? and done the same with cyrus?
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