September 2000
Beginner
408 pages
10h 29m
English
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Strengths and Weaknesses of Cyrus
Although you can bring up the UW IMAP server on a multipurpose Unix box with little or no forethought, the same cannot be said of Cyrus. Even under the best of circumstances, putting Cyrus on your machine is a major challenge. The only way to know if you want to “go there” is to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of Cyrus within the context of your own needs and resources.
The strengths of the Cyrus server are that it’s popular, scalable, and secure. Here are the strengths in detail:
- Popular
Cyrus is very popular. The community of Cyrus administrators communicates and cooperates via the info-cyrus mailing list, which has over 400 subscribers. The Cyrus server is downloaded over 3,500 times every month. In other words, if you operate a Cyrus site, you’re in good company. The attitude of other Cyrus sites towards questions and problems posted to the list is always helpful and cooperative. The Cyrus developers often contribute helpful advice and tips to the list, as well.
- Scalable
Cyrus supports quotas on mailboxes—your
/var/mailpartition will never fill up unexpectedly. Growth of your mailstore can be controlled using quotas and IMAP partitions.- Secure
Cyrus natively implements the Kerberos v4 SASL mechanism.
- Supports shared mailboxes
Cyrus supports shared folders by way of ACLs and allows concurrent read-write connections from more than one user.
Here are some of the weaknesses of the Cyrus server:
- Cyrus doesn’t use Unix mail format
Cyrus’s private mailstore ...
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