Cyrus IMAP ; case studies, success stories, ... I need them

[David Chait]

Piet,
    We use a mix of Cyrus and MeetingMaker to appoximate the groupware
aspects, and it does work quite wekk...as to making Cyrus and Exchange
co-exist...I've only heard of people sticking Unix MTA's in front of
Exchange to allow for less of a risk on their internet gateway, however as
far as I know the mail still needs to sit on the exchange server. You may be
able to get around this by setting up 2 different accounts in Outlook
simotaniously but it would be ugly. Introduce them to some of the other
options out there, MM isn't bad, nor is it expensive.

-David
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David Chait
Sys Admin  - Facilities Operations
333 Bonair Siding Road #107
Stanford CA, 94305
davidc at bonair.stanford.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piet Ruyssinck" <Piet.Ruyssinck at rug.ac.be>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Piet Ruyssinck" <pruyss at callisto.rug.ac.be>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:37 AM
Subject: Cyrus IMAP ; case studies, success stories, ... I need them


> Hi all,
>
> I have set up a test machine with cyrus imapd 2.1.11 and everything
> that goes with it.  Very nice system, working perfectly, in a test
> environment of some 30 people.
>
> Today, I went to see management, to get money for the production system
> hardware (I'm thinking about a full Sun Fire 280R with a full Sun
> StorEdge 3310 SCSI Array),
> ... only to hear that some other people are working on a solution based on
MS
> Exchange, because they want the groupware functionality.
>
> I might be able to convince them to adopt Cyrus imapd, if only I can
> assure them that it will peacefully coexist with MS exchange.  They can
> agree on using Cyrus for e-mail, and Exchange for the groupware stuff.
> But, being a full time unix admin, I have no clue about exchange.  Is
> such a setup possible ?  Or does Exchange rely on its own e-mail system ?
>
> Together with information, I could also use any Cyrus imapd success
> stories that I can get.
>
> If you're running Cyrus for a reasonably sized company or institution,
> please let me know, including the hardware you're using, number of
> (simultaneous) users, level of satisfaction, and other useful
> information.  Maybe we could collect this data in some kind of
> registry.
>
> Looking forward to your replies,
> Piet Ruyssinck
>
>
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