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From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo@××××××××××.ar>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:32:47
Message-Id: 42FAE29C.3000501@buanzo.com.ar
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) by Ow Mun Heng
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4 Ow Mun Heng wrote:
5 > Just wondering, can I say, have a virtual domain user user1@localdomain
6 > (where localdomain is really local but just hosted as a virtual domain)
7 > which can have SSH/FTP access using the same password to access their
8 > email?
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10 FTP to access the maildir, you mean? ssh for sftp? (same purpose)?
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12 > Thanks for the heads up then. Is the slowness attibuted to lookups to
13 > passwords or some other issues?
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15 storage format and concurrency. with the same hardware, courier-imap outperformed dovecot.
16 at least in most scenarios I've tested, or been told about.
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18 > Hmm... I see a general preference towards courier here.
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20 Been there, just that :) - I been sticking around with linux and free software since.... well, a lot
21 of time ago. the kernel was like 3 years old then :)
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23 > Just curious,
24 > have you tried cyrus at all? If yes, what are it's shortcomings?
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26 Yep. I worked for SuSE for along time, and it's an excellent product (cyrus+postfix being the
27 preference at that time, I can't tell now), but mail systems should be simple enough, and cyrus
28 tends to add a couple of steps that turn it into unusable for a beginner admin.
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32 Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar
33 Consultor en Seguridad Informatica
34 President, Open Information System Security Group - Argentina
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