Tornoci Laszlo a écrit :
Mathieu Kretchner wrote:
Alain Spineux a écrit :
2008/8/11 Mathieu Kretchner <mathieu.kretchner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
First of all : forgive me for my poor English
Hello all,
I've to compare cyrus with dovecot for my work. Because these are the
only
solutions that could fit our needs.
Unfortunately I really don't know cyrus and I would like to have some
of its
assets.
what do you need ?
A secure / reliable / fast / easy to configure Imap server !
how many mailbox ?
5000
how many users ?
6000
what is in use now ?
Cyrus
what kind of access ? IMAP, POP3, webmail ?
All of them!
how many server ?
2
Do you already have a database with your user ? in wich format ?
YES : LDAP / NIS
The real question is because we have only 2 options :
Why should I choose Cyrus instead of dovecot ?
Hi,
I happen to use both Dovecot and Cyrus. Dovecot is an excellent choice,
if you want to migrate from an old imap box with mbox or maildir based
mailstore. Dovecot knows these formats, so the migration is very easy.
Dovecot is very easy to set up, reliable, has nice features.
However, if you currently use Cyrus, it seems quite foolish to switch to
Dovecot. This means all sorts of headaches without gaining anything. You
would have to migrate all your Cyrus mailstore to another (probably
maildir) format. I would do this only, if I had a really compelling
reason. As others have already pointed out, Cyrus has more features, and
I haven't heard of major differences between Dovecot and Cyrus in terms
of speed or reliability either. Cyrus scales better, too.
Yours: Laszlo
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That's right ! It's a really important point in which we have to focus
and do the better choice for sysadmin and users too.
So I'm happy to see that you use the two imap server of this topic and
your point of view of "not switch to dovecot" because of our old cyrus
architecture is quite interesting.
regards
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