DoveCot vs Cyrus-Imapd Performance

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:00, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> And exactly how scalable are user accounts (the ones stored in flat file called
> /etc/passwd)?  That will not scale well. 

I think you know that's irrelevant for anything using PAM.  Dovecot is
equally capable.

> You want to use Webmin or Postfix admin, and manage users in LDAP database?  No
> problem.  Just point Cyrus to your LDAP database, and it will be happy with it.
>  Probably happier than Dovecot, and way more happier than wu-imapd.

Ah, now we are getting back to something actually relevant to fedora.
It would be really nice if a packaged LDAP configuration worked out
of the box and included the schemas needed for a posix account, a samba
account, and the mail delivery stuff that sendmail and postfix can
use for distributing mail with user at domain addressing across multiple
machines, along with tools to manage the database.  Does this exist
somewhere?  All the versions I've seen involve customizing the schemas
and I've always been afraid that as soon as I did that a working but
incompatible version would become part of the distribution.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com