Just a note here. Cyrus IMAP server is designed to be run as a *sealed* server, i.e. the only people that actually log into that machine are systems administrators. The *only* access you have to the e-mail on that machine is via the POP and/or IMAP protocols. This comes in handy for organizations that want a central, secure e-mail server. We use in in conjuntion with postfix & spamassassin for a very effective mail server for our small company. Is Cyrus IMAP the way to go for everyone, of course not. For us, it provides alot more advantages than disadvantages.Am Freitag, den 19.11.2004, 11:13 -0500 schrieb Paul Tomblin:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:09:35 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> wrote:
Cyrus admin commands. Also, you can't use procmail as delivery agent anymore, you need to use different MAILER definition in sendmail.mc. Mail will not go to /var/spool/mail, but rather to /var/spool/imap. The advantage of this is that *all* your folers will be in /var/spool/imap (in /var/spool/mail, only your INBOX folder is stored there, everything else must be somewhere in your home directory).
In other words, once you use Cyrus, you can never access your mail any other way. No thank you. The other imap clients leave your mail in /var/spool/mail. and so when you're local (or sshed in through the firewall) you can read it using mutt directly out of the spool.
Cyrus is also designed to scale well and provide good performance with a larger number of email boxes. As far as security, our remote users (those on travel or other locations) simply have a imap client on their local machine that can connect via SSL (thunderbird does a good job), instead of trying trying to run an interactive SSH session through the firewall.
To each their own....
hope this helps give perspective...
John
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