[Gllug] Recommendations for an IMAP server

[Mike Brodbelt]

Matthew King wrote:
> Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I have to disagree with this.
> 
> Cyrus is great but saslauthd is probably the most irritating piece of
> software I have ever come across that was not made by Microsoft.

It does a fairly complex job, and can be tricky to configure. The
testsaslauthd program makes setup easier, and saslauthd makes a lot
possible. I've set up one Cyrus system that authenticated from a Windows
2000 AD domain controller using winbind, pam and saslauthd, so it is
powerful.

If you don't need that, just set Cyrus up with the sasldb auxprop
plugin, and you get a very simple authentication layer which backends on
a Berkeley DB.

> Cyrus itself, on the other hand, is no more complicated than a single
> apt-get command.

Getting it installed isn't - getting it setup well is a little trickier
(but worth doing).

Mike
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