On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 22:46 +0100, mouss wrote:
Craig White wrote:
well, the opportune time to switch is probably when you are starting to set up a new mail server.
Dovecot is mostly featureless POP3/IMAP
Come on. is it holy war time again? should I shoot over cyrus software now or should we keep this list clean? If you like cryus software, I am happy for you. If you've done a an serious/objective comparative study, put it a on a web page (and ask for comments). Debating this here is not constructive nor fair.
---- why is it not constructive? Aren't dovecot and cyrus-imapd the only pop3/imap servers bundled with CentOS? Would not users of CentOS benefit from the discussion?
To be honest, I haven't looked at dovecot in quite some time...I made the switch from uw-imapd to cyrus-imapd on about 8 servers several years ago, finding that dovecot was pretty much like uw-imapd (but with a maildir implementation). It's likely they've added some features since I last considered it. ----
Cyrus-imapd has built-in...
- quota
- automatic folder, subscription, sieve scripts
- sieve instead of procmail
- automatic actions such as purging folders, search indexing on schedule
- delayed expunge
- shared mailboxes (ACL based)
- public mailboxes
- idled support
- support for virtual users (no need to have uses with shell/users folders)
- easy integration with LDAP
- separate directory for mail store (not in users folders)
The theory that I used to select cyrus-imapd is/was the idea that if e-mail is the power application that everyone needs/uses, why not give it the maximum performance/features?
I've been told this a lot of times, ... about MS Exchange ;-p but this list is about CentOS, so I'll stop here.
---- That's an interesting subject. I have a friend who is very pro-Macintosh and told me that he was planning on buying OSX Server and running all the various services off it (including mail server, etc.).
I listed out my typical plan, using either RHEL or CentOS, postfix, horde and a lot of other packages (obviously cyrus-imapd), which I could list here.
I actually recommended to this friend that he consider Microsoft SBS server and at least use it as a base for comparison (cost/features) because regardless of how you and I might feel about Microsoft Exchange server, it is a viable option if not the standard for small businesses.
I created this wiki page for the discussion of Exchange Server alternatives... http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Exchange_Server_Alternatives
Craig