On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:07:34PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote:
On 13 Aug 2008, at 10:31, kbajwa wrote:
I think you are missing a point which is most important, i.e., what
type of support Cyrus vs Dovecot offers. In my experience:Cyrus = 0 Dovecot = 100
As someone who answers many help requests for cyrus (and I'm very far
from the only one), I can honestly say I've never seen a requests
from you. Perhaps you've had a lot of occasion to ask for help with
Dovecot. I'm happy to hear you've gotten that help. Community is a
lot of what open source software is about. As for your experience
with the cyrus imapd community, perhaps your sample size is too small.
Yeah, there are a few of us here answering help requests, and even helping debugging in some cases. I'd be interested to see where that '0' comes from too.
Still, I think Cyrus and Dovecot are the best two imap servers out there, so it's going to be a question of which integrates best with your usage pattern. For a small server, starting with no experience in either, I would probably choose Dovecot. Now that I know Cyrus inside out, back to front, warts and all - well, I'd choose Cyrus because I know how to make it play nice. It's more of a "total system" in itself though, that you write support stuff around. Dovecot integrates more with other tools in a unix-daemon'y way.
Enjoy,
Bron ( now if someone came along with a compelling competitior for SASL... )