On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 22:46 +0100, mouss wrote: > 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. ---- why is it not constructive? Aren't dovecot and cyrus-imapd the only pop3/imap servers bundled with CentOS? Would not users of CentOS benefit from the discussion? To be honest, I haven't looked at dovecot in quite some time...I made the switch from uw-imapd to cyrus-imapd on about 8 servers several years ago, finding that dovecot was pretty much like uw-imapd (but with a maildir implementation). It's likely they've added some features since I last considered it. ---- > > 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. ---- That's an interesting subject. I have a friend who is very pro-Macintosh and told me that he was planning on buying OSX Server and running all the various services off it (including mail server, etc.). I listed out my typical plan, using either RHEL or CentOS, postfix, horde and a lot of other packages (obviously cyrus-imapd), which I could list here. I actually recommended to this friend that he consider Microsoft SBS server and at least use it as a base for comparison (cost/features) because regardless of how you and I might feel about Microsoft Exchange server, it is a viable option if not the standard for small businesses. I created this wiki page for the discussion of Exchange Server alternatives... http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Exchange_Server_Alternatives Craig