[ale] Cyrus -vs- Washington IMAP (and any others)

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Dovecot definitely looks like what I'm looking for.  At this point, I've 
downloaded it, and I'm in the process of RTFM (read the helpful manual).
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Nathan J. Underwood
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Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm in the process of replacing an NT4 / Exchange network with a *nix 
>>(Linux, Samba, <mail server>) backend, and I'm to the mail stuff now. 
>>It's going to be a Fedora setup, and I would really prefer to stick with 
>>RPM packages rather than source so that updates can be handled (as much 
>>as possible) via apt or yum.  I've used sendmail and qmail in the past, 
>>and would prefer to use qmail (don't get me started on sendmail), but 
>>I've not been able to find a qmail rpm.  Postfix looks like the next 
>>best thing, so I've been tinkering with it (2 config files so far, I 
>>love that) as an MTA.  Since they'll be moving from an Exchange world, 
>>and they're used to never having to delete anything (again, don't get me 
>>started) and being able to get access to the same 'picture' of their 
>>mail from multiple locations (office, home, webmail), I believe IMAP 
>>would be a better option than POP3.  They will have 3 servers when it's 
>>all said and done, one will be the primary file server and acting PDC 
>>(Samba 3 + LDAP), the other two will function as primary / secondary DNS 
>>and DHCP servers, and the secondary will also function as a BDC 
>>(slurpd).  In looking at available IMAP servers, it looks like 
>>Washington and Cyrus are the two main players.  The big advantage of 
>>Cyrus over Washington appears to be that there isn't a need for a local 
>>account, which isn't really a big deal since all mail users will have 
>>local accounts.  Any thoughts?  Should I consider Washington, or drive 
>>on with Cyrus?  Any other input / suggestions would also be appreciated. 
>> I'm looking at using a SpamAssassin / ClamAV combo for av and anti-spam.
> 
> 
> Given your criteria, I'd say go with Postfix for the MTA
> 
> For the IMAP, go with Dovecot if you want simple (in other words, same
> feature space as University of Washington IMAP). If you want a little more
> enterprise-oriented feature set, and are willing to learn it, go with Cyrus.
> 
> later,
> chris
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