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

[feizhou at graffiti.net (Feizhou)]

> my point about horsepower is that it is really easy to add a spare 
> machine to a courier cluster. If my boss said heres an old pentium, can 
> you throw it into the cyrus server pool it would not really help. Wheras 
> throwing an old server into a courier pool is very easy and the extra 
> horsepower gained is helpful.
> 
> If I only had one machine I would use cyrus. It is more efficient, but 
> if I ever had the option of recycling secretaries computers for mail 
> servers I would use courier.

ok...so...cyrus don't have a bunch of authdaemons, a tcp server that 
accepts connections and then forks a handler?

it is less resource intensive perhaps due to less IMAP features?