Karanbir Singh wrote: > jean-sebastien Hubert wrote: > >> Cyrus is very hard to install/configure/manage. > > > Like I said before, I dont agree with that point of view at all - > Cyrus is an excellent imapd that scales very well, from 3 user systems > to 45,000 user systems ( the largest that I've seen, there are most > likely larger setup's out there ). Just use google; you will see that Cyrus is hard to make it run correctly. > > There is an old Indian saying : things you know about tend to be easy > - things you have no clue about, tend to be really hard. > > When such arguments are raised, I find it has great significance, > since it explains the entire argument over. So if you comfort zone is > Courier, so be it, nothing wrong with that, use Courier - its a good > email solution - but dont slag off Cyrus because of your mindset. > I talk about my experience: I (still) have an old debian-woody with cyrus+mysql+sieve+postfix+web-cyradm. To me (and hat was my mystake) the best way was: install a RHEL3 clone, build cyrus and let's go; you have nothing to do. 3 days later: I fail. I don't think I'm clever, but after 3 days I have a half-working server .. and hard to maintain (I'm not the only system administrator) So, the next day, I try courier+maildrop+postfix+postfixadm: I have a full working server in 2 days. At the beginning, my knoledge of cyrus and courier was close to zero. So, if you can install such type of server in 2 minutes (or 2 yours) , I will begin your fan. But I don't think that the common mortal human can do that :-/ (sorry for the strange "french translation" :) >> 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. > > > You dont need to rebuild anything in order to get cyrus-imapd working > with mysql, it works out of the box as supplied within CentOS4. Again, > a point that emphasis your knowledge pool lies elsewhere. Sure. The problem is in fact "postfix", there is no mysql support by default (in RHAS4) , but the rpm is simple to rebuild. > >> Courier-imap is, when you compare, far easy to configure. > > > Incorrect again. Its actually courier that you are going to need to > rebuild from source, maintain and test yourself ( which includes > tracking security fix's and vuln's over the Internet, rebuilding and > testing on your own each time there is a fix etc, and if that fix > involves a version update that breaks configs.... foobar! ). courier is not complicated to maintain., so ... that's not a big problem. > I think you missed my point about app acquisition + maint from the > last email. > > Also, we're drifting off here, Morten ( the OP ) wanted to know what > imapd to use with the distro, Since Dovecot and Cyrus are included > within the distro, my recommendation is going to be -> use one of > them. Dovecot works out of the box, cyrus needs a couple of lines edited. > > - K The main thing to have in mind: I'm in the cast where I'm still in a RHAS3 clone, not RHAS4, that's why I prefer courier-imap. Regards jean-seb