On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Cyrus is a good system. For a single setup its very good, you cannot
> scale it across NFS (you can't do this safely with mbox either - its just
Scale across NFS? I can consider that an oxymoron. NFS is poor
protocol for mail retrieval over a network. IMAP is better. Cyrus will
easily (as in x86 hardware) handle 50,000 mailboxes on a single sealed
server. If you need more, just use a proxy which redirects the IMAP or POP
request to the appropiate server.
> the reason why I don't use it). It does use its own format mail spool -
> which gives it good performance by optomising the layout for the data
> needed for IMAP. If you want IMAP its the best implementation I know of.
> It is again not free software
Free for use.
> http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/
> There is also a fully commercial derivative - Simeon [Long ago the UK
> academic mob were talking licenses with ESYS - might be worth talking to
> JNT/CHEST whoever if you are in this position]
> http://www.esys.ca/
>
>
> [There are many others - most of which I have not fiddled with.
> Personally I use cucipop on small systems, Cyrus on a few, qmail's popper
> on big systems]
>
> Nigel.
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