boo to Cyrus

[Marc Lucke]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Do, den 17.06.2004 schrieb Marc Lucke um 2:13:
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>>I like imap-2002d.  I like SquirrelMail.  Why change to Cyrus?  It isn't 
>>integrated into Linux and it is a big pain in the unmentionable areas of 
>>the body.  Does anyone know why this change was inflicted on us?  My 
>>guess was that maybe development on the old servers had stopped whereas 
>>cyrus was continuing?  Or was it the stand-off re imap between wu (rfc) 
>>& microsloth (they did it theeeiiiiirrrrr... waaaaayyyy)?  Anyone know?  
>>I'd be interested.
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>uw-imap was taken as too insecure by the Redhat decider what goes into
>Fedora Core. So dovecot was chosen as an alternative. Cyrus-IMAPd is not
>take as an exchange for uw-imap - although it mistakingly is installed
>when upgrading from FC1 to FC2. Cyrus-IMAPd is not that simple and the
>one who wants to use it should carefully read the documentation first.
>It's intended usage implies some serious configuration. Just take that
>it can run without local system users, as a so called sealed server.
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>Run dovecot if you want a small and easy IMAP/POP3 server.
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>Alexander
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thanks Alexander - your answer is very appreciated and makes much 
sense.  I'll try to figure out why my particular system insisted on 
cyrus-imapd instead of dovecote and do the appropriate reading.
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