Flame War! -- IMAP Servers

[Nathan England]

I really think Cyrus is the way I am going to go. Just because of the feature 
list, but at this time we don't do any sharing!  So I really only want 
robustness.

On Thursday 13 July 2006 09:45, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 09:17 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have roughly 250 users and we would like the ability to keep email on
> > the server. We don't have any specials needs and there aren't enough
> > meetings to herald a calendaring effort, so basically only email storage.
> > Currently I am using Fedora Core 5 with Dovecot for IMAP. Some users
> > access through squirrelmail and others use Outlook Express. I am
> > switching the OE users over to thunderbird (and the Office users over to
> > OO.o - another story) and most users are utilizing FireFox.
> >
> > The only real consideration is thousands of emails. Dovecot should be
> > able to handle this no sweat, but with only a few users testing the
> > system it choked. The machine for the time being is not state-of-the-art
> > by any means, but has a 2.4GHZ p4 with HT turned off and 1 GB of ram. Our
> > network is only 10/100 and we are not looking into upgrading the switches
> > to 1GB any time soon.
> >
> > I don't mean to start a flame war, I am truly interested in your
> > experiences as the wealth of knowledge in this group is quite scary at
> > times~!
> >
> > I appreciate all questions, helpful ideas and bricks thrown my way!
> >
> > nathan
> >
> > P.S. As this information might help others I would like to keep it on
> > list, but if any of you happen to work for local gov't, please contact me
> > off list as I have further questions... storage/retrieval and auditing
> > stuff for gov't.
>
> ----
> I switched over to cyrus-imapd a long time ago and never looked back.
> Killer features include:
> - duplicate suppression
> - Autocreate folders
> - Autocreate sieve (sieve works perfectly even with virtual users i.e.
> no shell no home dir) - it's easy to set it up to have a newly created
> user with a spam folder to automatically put higher SA scoring emails
> and with Horde/IMP/Ingo, users can manage their own sieve scripts (white
> lists, black lists, vacation replies, etc.). Perhaps squirrelmail has
> utility for the user to manage sieve scripts.
> - Autocreate subscriptions
> - Public folders & shared email (sophisticated ACL system permits a
> granular permission arrangement on mail boxes - especially public
> mailboxes)
> - Strong backend support including scheduled mailbox indexing for very
> fast searches, expiring mail items
> - Easily adaptable to any user/password schema (I am pretty much stuck
> on LDAP)
> - Built-in user quotas
> - Faster than anything I have ever seen - each email is stored
> separately, unlike mbox
> - Advanced feature set (supports idled, multiple data stores, eminently
> expandable)
>
> Craig
>
> ps...yes, it supports pop3 too

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Nathan England
PaysonLinux User Group 
nathan at paysonlinux.org
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