[Gllug] Recommendations for an IMAP server

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Wed Sep 20 16:24:17 UTC 2006


Alain Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:51:12PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>> John Winters wrote:
>>> courier-imap
>>> dovecote-imapd
>>> bincimap
>> cyrus
> 
> Cyrus is good, but can be a pig to set up.
> If you need scalability go for cyrus, for a small installation I have found
> dovecot to work well.
> 

its fairly simple on a distro that includes it, eg on CentOS - yum 
install the pkgs, change the delivery mechanism for your MTA to point at 
cyrus, ensure the saslauthd is running, and you are good to go. the 
chosen setup defaults work quite well for most people.

Cyrus, rules!


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