[LUNI] Cyrus vs. Courier for small installations

[Keith T. Garner]

I know this wasn't one of the choices, but if you're thinking courier, you
probably really want dovecot.

Keith

On 9/26/07 10:33 AM, sten wrote:
> I've been running Cyrus for a couple years now, but having to use the
> sasldb and sieveshell never really rubbed me right. I stayed because I like
> having a mailstore outside $HOME, and while I dislike the sieveshell,
> having a mail filtering language I can read and understand (vs. procmail)
> is really great. I had run Courier for a while, and had the vague notion
> that I could put a mailstore somewhere other than $HOME via a per-user
> configuration, and now I was just reading about Maildrop which somehow went
> completely under my radar. Now I'm itching to go back, but before I go
> whole-hog and migrate, I thought I'd ping the list. My only remaining
> concerns are regarding speed and memory usage- I know Cyrus is almost
> certainly faster for full-text searching, which I do use at least a couple
> times a week, but my server currently only has 2 real accounts, maybe 100
> messages on a busy day after Postgrey rejects a ton. Aside from searching,
> has anyone noticed significant speed differences or differences in memory
> footprint between the two?
> 
> TIA,
> Sten
> 


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