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On 01/17/2018 06:33 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CE79D94EAF1DFE9C4E2877ED@Sebbis-iMac.local">Hi,
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">A new customer asks me to build a new
mailserver environment with
<br>
Dovecot. I normally use Cyrus.
<br>
<br>
My question: What's better in Cyrus?
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I thought the plan was to answer that question on the website, but
I guess that hasn't happened yet – at least I couldn't find
anything.
<br>
<br>
I'd say it's the better choice for large-scale deployments with
tens and hundreds of thousands of users.<br>
</blockquote>
Cyrus does not require creating users on the mail server which I
have always believed is a big security plus.<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CE79D94EAF1DFE9C4E2877ED@Sebbis-iMac.local">
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I use Cyrus because Dovecot did not excist
at the time I wanted to go
<br>
away from Washington IMAP.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I'm in the same boat.
<br>
</blockquote>
The same kind of thing for me because there was not much around in
the late 90's in the way of IMAP servers.<br>
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cite="mid:CE79D94EAF1DFE9C4E2877ED@Sebbis-iMac.local">
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">An important reason to stay with Cyrus is
<br>
this mailing list with good support, and because I know Cyrus.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Right, but for a new deployment I would at least consider Dovecot.
I've never administrated a Dovecot server, but it is definitely
much easier to set up than Cyrus.
<br>
</blockquote>
I am not so sure about that now.<br>
I have been asked to provide support to a Rube Goldberg style of
mail setup and trying to track the installation and configuration of
dovecot in a multidomain, virtual-user setup was crazy.<br>
It seemed like there were dozens of config files spread over the
file system.<br>
<br>
Dovecot is kind of like Postfix.<br>
Once upon a time it was a simple little application to solve a
smallish application domain but as the requirements grew creeping
features created an overly complex rats nest of config options and
data sources.<br>
<br>
I believe Cyrus was designed to solve the mailstore problem at scale
from the outset.<br>
<br>
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cite="mid:CE79D94EAF1DFE9C4E2877ED@Sebbis-iMac.local">--
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Sebastian Hagedorn - Weyertal 121, Zimmer 2.02
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Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-470-89578<br>
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