[Dovecot] Cyrus vs Dovecot
Charles Marcus
CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon Aug 11 18:52:45 EEST 2008
On 8/11/2008, Mathieu Kretchner (mathieu.kretchner at sophia.inria.fr) wrote:
> So here is my next environment :
>
> how many mailbox ?
> 5000
with adequate hardware/RAM, no problem
> how many users ?
> 6000
again - with adequate hardware/RAM, no problem
Concurrent access/usage will dictate if you need more than one server.
> what kind of access ?
> IMAP(s), POP3(s), webmail
no problem - webmail is separate of course, use whichever webmail app
you like
> how many server ?
> 2 (how to configure this with dovecot ? hearthbeat ? is it better with 1 big hardware ? )
Timo is working on integrated replication right now, but it does
currently have proxy capability that I understand works well and makes
this fairly painless, although I haven't used it...
But I'm not sure if you are talking about 2 REDUNDANT servers (for
fail-over in the event the primary fails), or 2 active/load-balanced
servers... proxy would work for load-balancing, and you can configure
anything to use heartbeat, no?
> Database user ?
> LDAP
no problem
> Mail DB ?
> Cyrus maildir
You'll have to convert to standard maildir:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Cyrus
> Capability ?
> Sieve / Quota
On latest version (1.1.2 currently), no problem, but a newer/full
rewrite to provide native sieve capability is in progress, which will
provide much better control
> High Performance without hacking conf files !
this is one of dovecots strongest points imo...
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Best regards,
Charles
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