Am 02.03.2025 um 17:54:25 Uhr schrieb Dr. Thorsten Brandau via Info: > I was using cyrus-imapd 2.2 and 2.4 for many years with mainly SuSe > Linux up to Leap 15.2. Then for some reasons, i had to setup a new > email server and found that cyrus is not supported, not even offered > in the repositories anymore. After a longer search, i had to use > manjaro/arch with the arch repositories to get cyrus (3.10) up and > running. What makes things more complicated, that my groupware does > not like to communicate with cyrus (group-e from endo7), especially > not with the included sieve which affects us seriously (no automatic > replys configureable) Cyrus is available in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and maybe more operating systems. > So much for the background. So I wonder why all of a sudden (from my > perspective) cyrus was removed from so many distributions and what > kind of impact that has on out long term planning. My understanding > was always cyrus being a long term scalable system and dovecot more > the homebrew one, but it seems vice versa now? Both are still developed further and Cyrus is backed by fastmail. Many people prefer Dovecot, never tried that. > - - if there is a way to setup vacation noticed/automatic reply with > cyrus and thunderbird You can use Sieve and use any Sieve client to change the sieve script. There seem to be old addons for TB to manage that. > - - alternatively getting group-e to work with cyrus 3.10 (it can > only be configured to cyrus 2.4) What doesn't work and what changed in Cyrus that broke it? > - - altetnatively a recommendation for a groupeware that works with > cyrus (egroupware lacks a number of features of group-e but is the > closes so far, still not fully compatible with cyrus 3.10 as it seems) SOGo does. My old workplace runs that. > Last but not least I am lookkng for an administration/user admin tool > for cyrus (group-e did that well) and did not find anything aside > from cli yet cyradm for CLI exists. Any reason for not using it? Gyrus also exists at least in Debian: m@ryz:~$ apt show gyrus Package: gyrus Maintainer: Willem van den Akker <wvdakker@xxxxxxxxxx> Homepage: https://gitlab.com/wvdakker/gyrus Description: GNOME tool for Cyrus-IMAP servers administration It allows through a nice GUI to control user quotas, create and remove mailboxes, and to manipulate the Access Control List for each mailbox. -- Gruß Marco Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1740934465muell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Info Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/Tc3db057d31794e3c-M0c00d798fab64fb6a4040be0 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/subscription
