On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:09 +0100, mouss wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > 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? > > because expereience shows that such debates should be conducted offlist, > quietly and with arguments. Otherwise, proponents of each side jump on > the wagon at every opportunity to reply to what they feel is an attack > against their "baby". you know the story, so I won't annoy you by > repeating it. > > anyway, for it to be constructive, it should start on the right track. > calling dovecot featureless and listing features that are actually > supported by dovecot isn't a good start :) ---- probably not, but it seemed fair once I got into cyrus-imapd and saw all of the bonus options that I never had in uw-imapd. I suppose that dovecot has virtual user features (without maildir) and LDAP support and you could probably shell script some of the other stuff to get around the lack of built-in support. ---- > > Aren't dovecot and cyrus-imapd the only > > pop3/imap servers bundled with CentOS? Would not users of CentOS benefit > > from the discussion? > > > > courier is another choice. ---- courier isn't included in upstream or CentOS Craig