Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Mathieu Kretchner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wesley Craig a écrit : On 11 Aug 2008, at 08:57, Mathieu Kretchner wrote: what is in use now ? Cyrus Why should I choose Cyrus instead of dovecot ? Are you having a problem with Cyrus? Migrating from any server to any other is likely

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Mathieu Kretchner
Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : The real question is because we have only 2 options : Why should I choose Cyrus instead of dovecot ? Features like delayed expunge, message expiration, etc... that allow you to have a managed mail store. Cyrus is the only Open Source IMAP/POP server I know of

SASL MySQL Backend Considered Beneficial

2008-08-12 Thread Ian G Batten
On 11 Aug 08, at 1648, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello I have two mail server (FreeBSD 7.0, sendmail/cyrus v2.3.12p2), incl. replication with sync_client/-master. Until now they works perfect. Now I changed on the sync_server from sasldb (Berkeley db1.85) to saslauthd (with saslauthd -a

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:53 +0200, Mathieu Kretchner wrote: Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : The real question is because we have only 2 options : Why should I choose Cyrus instead of dovecot ? Features like delayed expunge, message expiration, etc... that allow you to have a managed mail

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
Mathieu Kretchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok thanks ! A good point on the cyrus side ! What about the performance ? Depends on which size your scenario will be. Does my next configuration will run correctly ? Which hardware should I buy for this activity ? That's like asking a crystal

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Mathieu Kretchner
Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:53 +0200, Mathieu Kretchner wrote: Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : The real question is because we have only 2 options : Why should I choose Cyrus instead of dovecot ? Features like delayed expunge, message expiration, etc... that allow you

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
Adam Tauno Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have allot of users and allot of mail you are going to have allot of I/O. No way around that, regardless of the server. Cyrus' indexes headers better now, so that might help. But you still need adequate through-put. I've found that

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Wesley Craig
On 12 Aug 2008, at 06:53, Mathieu Kretchner wrote: At present, we have a lot of I/O, we wonder if the last version of cyrus is improved for this point ? Recent versions have several features designed to allow very large scaling of I/O. In addition to optimization to the old architecture,