boo to Cyrus

[Marc Lucke]

Roger Grosswiler wrote:

>i have the combination cyrus and squirrelmail - this works just perfect and is in squirrel as easy to configure as
>uw-imap. cyrus has many advantages, just to mention a simple administration of quotas and not needing it to do by
>diskquota, easier backup (not maildir) and so on...
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>If you use postfix, you get a lot, lot, lot of documentation online how to install and maintain on www.postfix.org.
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>ok, perhaps you are right and cyrus itself isn't that easy to install. but fc2 let you do this within a few minutes.
>but is still missing is some entries for sendmail and postfix, where users just could comment out for cyrus.
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>I have it running with postfix, i remember alexander dalloz as a real specialist on sendmail with this.
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>...but finally they are all pop/imap-servers, so install after your choice. you still get uw-imapd (look at nina phams
>statements here). For me, not cyrus is the replacement for uw-imap, it's dovecot. look at its capabilities at
>www.dovecot.org. fight your forces of habit ;-)
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>cheers,
>Roger
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Thanks Roger,

Actually, just managed to migrate to dovecot on 2 servers.  Not so 
tricky when one works out how.  The dovecot website might be a little 
more helpful on this.  For anyone considering it, I did it this way:

* go in to each directory in /home
* move all mbox files to the directory mail
* cp .mailboxlist to mail/.subscriptions

& Bob, as they say, was my uncle.

btw, Cyrus is probably very good.  I don't doubt that for a 
millisecond.  But it needs a conversion tool.  dovecot could do with one 
too, I think.


Marc