Karanbir Singh wrote:
jean-sebastien Hubert wrote:
Why say that cyrus-imapd is a near zero admin ?? It's far the hardest imap/pop3 to configure, and if you want for exemple add mysql feature (to store user account); take 30 L of coffee, some anti-depressive medics and go :)
I run cyrus-imapd, have done so for years. I do find it near zero admin. If you want mysql backend support, use via pam_mysqld, takes all of about 2 minutes to setup. It usually takes me longer to get postfix setup and running against the mysql hosted userlist than cyrus.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a cyrus-imapd to admin (with mysql, postfix) and .. the thing i can say is: in the next 3 month, I will install courier to kick this ... of . (there is 500 accounts on this server) Cyrus is very hard to install/configure/manage.
And acquisition of the app does not get easier than yum installing it out of the base repo, with the assurance of it being supported within the distro framework.
perhaps I should say 'does not need excessive admin, nothing more than what you would expect with any imapd'
- KB
Maybe; the problem with cyrus is when you use it with mysql and postfix .. you need to recompile so many stuff , and more you modify your distrib, more it's hard to apply security updates.
Courier-imap is, when you compare, far easy to configure.
Regards