> > > Looking to replace our UW-IMAP server with either Dovecot or Cyrus. Has > > anyone had any experience with these two IMAP servers? As far as I can > > tell, the Dovecot filesystem is compatible with uw-imap, which would make > > the upgrade easier. My main issue is performance. We run up to 100 > > simultaneous connections and with this load, uw-imap seems to suffer > > performance and stability wise. > > > Ben > > 100 concurrent IMAP connections sounds like a bigger mail server > environment. I then would imagine you would benefit from the power of > the Cyrus-IMAPd. Because of it's capabilities is requires more > understanding and energy to set it up properly. Especially the > interaction with the MTA (Sendmail, Postfix, Exim) is not prepared on > Fedora Core in a way so that it immediately works after installation. > Though it is not a real problem. > > Dovecot can be high-performance too either with mbox or Maildir usage. > Dovecot does indexing, see > > http://dovecot.org/doc/mail-storages.txt > > I think you will have to read both IMAP/POP3 server's documentation a > bit to see what you need regarding features, complexity and your skills. > Performance shouldn't be a real problem with both. The uw-imapd is not a > good performer speaking about larger systems. For the Cyrus-IMAPd see > > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/ > > I would vote for Cyrus-IMAPd because I like it's features. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp > Serendipity 04:25:29 up 6 days, 1:05, load average: 0.08, 0.39, 0.41 Thanks very much for the pointers Alexander, some very useful information there. Regards, Ben.
