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.