boo to Cyrus
Cyrus Adkisson
cadkisson at rooseveltmedia.com
Tue Jun 22 18:00:30 UTC 2004
Right back at ya, Slick.
Cyrus
T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:23:16PM -0400, Tom Elsesser wrote:
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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?
>>>
>>>
>>Actually, my version of FC2 came with Dovecot as the imap server. It was
>>very simple to setup, and seems to work well. But I agree, the uw-imap and
>>squirrelmail played together nicely, I wonder why they changed as well.
>>
>>
>
>Actually FC2 comes with both Dovecot and Cyrus imap packages.
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep cyrus
> cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18-2
> cyrus-imapd-devel-2.2.3-11
> cyrus-imapd-murder-2.2.3-11
> cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.18-2
> cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.3-11
> cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.18-2
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-2
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-11
> cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.18-2
> cyrus-imapd-nntp-2.2.3-11
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i dove
> dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2
>
>Both can be installed and one of the two selected via chkconfig.
>Without special tinkering to change the network ports only one
>of the two should be 'on' at the same time time.
>
> # chkconfig --list | egrep -i "cyrus|dove"
> cyrus-imapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
> dovecot 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
>
>One could compile and install the old imapd by hand and leave these
>puppies off. A clever man could force the FC1 rpm for imap-2002d to
>install on FC2 and not let the new versions stomp on it. But dovecot
>would be simpler than this type of hacking.
>
> dovecot is simple
> cyrus-imap is complex and feature rich
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