On Thursday 11 August 2005 05:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Just curious, > have you tried cyrus at all? If yes, what are it's shortcomings?
I used cyrus. I used to use courier but having looked at cyrus realized what I was missing. The Maildir format uses a transactional databates to keep it's indexes up to date, so it's faster then courier. It does support clustering too, although I've never done it. I am not sure how you would get it to authenticate against multiple authentication backends - I've never neeeded to do so. I use it in a virtual hosting environment, and whilst there are local users, they are not tied 1-to-1 to a mailbox. This does mean that if people want to run pine (or similar) from the mail server they have to use IMAP, but in my case this isn't a problem at all. Cyrus also supports shared folders and ACLs - not something Courier provides, so if you are ever likely to use this, Cyrus is also the one to choose. I'm not sure Courier supports IDLE either. Kind Regards, -- Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk
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