Seems there are 2 parts in this thread:
1) cyrus is hard to administer/install 2) cyrus has lesser possibilities
...so let me first say, i'm not a guru at all...
to 1) with the rpm's installed cyrus within a few minutes. According to security-reasons, i changed authentication-db to mysql, this took me half a day to find the information and furter 5 minutes. Now, my users do authentication via sasl/mysql - and this make me happy
i offer e-mail to a few friends, my server is a small p3 - and it performs well. Having quota on the mailboxes is in cyradm a short sq [quota] user.mailbox. I don't have to fiddle around in maildirs do set an appopriate quota. Cyradm is also a super-support for the administration of cyrus.
to 2) FC delivers squirrelmail with. If your users need a webinterface, it might be your friend, as squirrelmail delivers a quite good webinterface also for sieve. All my users can handle vacation and per-folder-filters on their own via webinterface - isn't this service???
to performance i unfortunately cannot tell a lot with about 10 users on it. What i can say, if i open each morning my mail-client in the office, connecting to my mailserver at home (having 512 kb upload) it takes about 2-3 secs for having 250 e-mails to my selection (upload is finished). So, i personally think Cyrus performs well.
But, as many said before here, i like cyrus another likes dovecot - it's always a thing of your personal prefers.
I choosed cyrus specially as it works excellent with postfix. And as you can see, you don't need to be a guru to get this thing up and working. Not since there are rpm's (from simon matter before and shipped with fc now) *brrrr* i still remember the times of compling cyrus before... (think i'm getting antiquary now ;-))
Roger
