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:
>
>  
>
>>>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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