[Dovecot] Cyrus vs Dovecot
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 12 10:55:16 EEST 2008
On Aug 12, 2008, at 3:41 AM, Mathieu Kretchner wrote:
>>> Database user ?
>>> LDAP
>
> Here is an other problem : we don't have uid/gid stored in our LDAP
> database. Do we have to configure dovecot with a dovecot specific
> user/group ?
Yes, one or more (for one you have mail_uid/gid settings with v1.1).
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds
>> no problem
>>> Mail DB ?
>>> Cyrus maildir
>> You'll have to convert to standard maildir:
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Cyrus
>
> Thanks for the url, I've already seen it before and the script
> cyrus2courrier seems good but we wonder why you didn't mention
> imapsync ? (maybe because for mass migration we must have a clear
> password file?)
Most importantly imapsync doesn't preserve message UIDs. cyrus2courier
is also faster since it doesn't have to write all the mail data, just
rename the files.
>>> 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...
>
> Indeed, we bench cyrus and dovecot from scratch and dovecot seems to
> be realy fast !
Benchmarking IMAP servers for real-world usage is a bit difficult. http://imapwiki.org/Benchmarking
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