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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 04:20:05
Message-Id: 42FAD180.3030902@buanzo.com.ar
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) by Ow Mun Heng
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4 Ow Mun Heng wrote:
5 > 1. Ability to do Virtual Mail Hosting
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7 courier-mta
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9 > 2. Ability to support local Users (see note)
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12 Courier. I had both local (/etc/passwd) accounts, and virtual-domain+user accounts on the same
13 server (7000+ accounts total, SQL+/etc/passwd (via PAM))
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15 > 3. Scalable
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17 Courier-MTA (includes courier-imap)
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19 DON'T THINK ABOUT DOVECOT for really scalable installations. after 5000+ it gets quite slow.
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21 > 4. Support for flat file Passwords(/etc/passwd) or LDAP/MySQL
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23 Courier-MTA (includes courier-imap)
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26 Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar
27 Consultor en Seguridad Informatica
28 President, Open Information System Security Group - Argentina
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Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>