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

[Ralph Angenendt]

Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> 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. 

I don't have it in production, but it wasn't too hard to set up an imap
murder scenario. And adding additional backend servers to that is a
piece of cake. 

> 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.

I don't see the "hardship" in clustering cyrus imap boxes. And I don't
see the ease in clustering courier servers, but I've never done that, so
I'm probably not the person to judge about that.

Ralph
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