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[John Burton]

Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 19.11.2004, 11:13 -0500 schrieb Paul Tomblin:
> 
>>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:09:35 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic
>><amilivojevic at pbl.ca> 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.
>>
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.

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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