Craig White wrote: > well, the opportune time to switch is probably when you are starting to > set up a new mail server. > > Dovecot is mostly featureless POP3/IMAP > Come on. is it holy war time again? should I shoot over cyrus software now or should we keep this list clean? If you like cryus software, I am happy for you. If you've done a an serious/objective comparative study, put it a on a web page (and ask for comments). Debating this here is not constructive nor fair. > Cyrus-imapd has built-in... > - quota > - automatic folder, subscription, sieve scripts > - sieve instead of procmail > - automatic actions such as purging folders, search indexing on schedule > - delayed expunge > - shared mailboxes (ACL based) > - public mailboxes > - idled support > - support for virtual users > (no need to have uses with shell/users folders) > - easy integration with LDAP > - separate directory for mail store (not in users folders) > > The theory that I used to select cyrus-imapd is/was the idea that if > e-mail is the power application that everyone needs/uses, why not give > it the maximum performance/features? > I've been told this a lot of times, ... about MS Exchange ;-p but this list is about CentOS, so I'll stop here.