using Cyrus was Re: [CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

Feizhou feizhou at graffiti.net
Wed Dec 7 15:20:51 UTC 2005


> less resource intensive becuase of the indexes, which are small 
> databases which contain information about the users mail. Don't make 
> your choice base on this alone, becuase it is not very easy to cluster 
> cyrus servers. If you only have one server then choose cyrus, but if you 
> possibly are able to accumulate older servers to cluster them, then 
> choose courier.

So memory footprint and cpu consumption are not significantly different?

I gather then that to cluster cyrus, you need to not only share the 
actual mailboxes but also /var/imap?



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