using Cyrus was Re: [CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
Robin Mordasiewicz
robin at bullseye.tv
Wed Dec 7 14:47:40 UTC 2005
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Feizhou wrote:
>>>> 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?
my point about horsepower is that it is really easy to add a spare machine
to a courier cluster. If my boss said heres an old pentium, can you
throw it into the cyrus server pool it would not really help. Wheras
throwing an old server into a courier pool is very easy and the extra
horsepower gained is helpful.
If I only had one machine I would use cyrus. It is more efficient, but if
I ever had the option of recycling secretaries computers for mail servers
I would use courier.
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