On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: >> >>>> >>> Mail store != imap server. Mail store = structure for mboxes/maildirs. >>> >>> >> Cyrus is sort of its own thing with its own mail store. >> > > Sorry, I keep forgetting about that crap... > > Never touched it and never wanted to after I heard the screams from a > friend who used cyrus and swore by it until he got corrupt mailboxes. > Had to help setup postfix, dovecot and vpopmail iirc. Some people (or unreliable hardware...) can break anything. There are some very large and apparently successful cyrus installations. Until dovecot started optimistically indexing it wasn't particularly good in large systems. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com