[CentOS] dovecot vs Cyrus-Imapd

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 24 23:36:59 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:14, Bob Pierce wrote:
> I'm just preparing to build a new mail server for use at an ISP handling
> over 10,000 mailboxes and several domains.
> 
> We're currently using Qmail, but we'd like to move away from that since
> we have now changed our inbound mail systems over to Postfix. 
> 
> Postfix will be receiving the mail, and I'm trying to decide between
> Dovecot and Cyrus-Imapd for the POP & IMAP service.
> 
> Does anybody have any advice or opinions about which of these two
> packages would be better for a large installation. I'd prefer if the
> package could tie into MySQL for user authentication, and all mailboxes
> will be virtual in the sense that they won't have local system accounts.

Cyrus is designed for exactly that kind of environment and should
give the best performance. 

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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