using Cyrus was Re: Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[feizhou at graffiti.net (Feizhou)]

>>> cyrus is such a pain, and requires more horsepower on a single box.
>>> It is better to run five really crappy cheap servers using courier 
>>> over NFS

> speaking from experience. I have used both extensively, and both are 
> excellent, but I would not leave a cyrus installation in the hands of a 
> newbie, whereas courier is alot easier to support for people who do not 
> specialize in mail servers. I dont think its FUD to say that cyrus is 
> something that an advanced admin may prefer, and a nice thing about 
> courier is that if you find an old spare machine laying around it is 
> very easy to integrate into your mail cluster. And a failed courier box 
> does not affect the rest of the cluster. When a cyrus box fails, there 
> is no doubt downtime, and you need to know how to fix it as opposed to 
> just reinstalling another courier box and copying the config files.

You left out the horsepower bit.

Have you ever ran courier-imap with IDLE support in conjunction with 
fam? and done the same with cyrus?