[Dovecot] Hi everyone .. need some pro-dovecot arguments :-)

[Chris Wakelin]

One good reason to prefer Dovecot over Cyrus is that it supports both
Maildir and Mailbox, meaning you don't have to change your mailbox
format from that of UW-IMAP (unless you're using MBX), and can gradually
switch over to Maildir. It's made a huge difference to our IMAP server
performance, whilst keeping backwards compatablility with UW.

Cyrus has been around longer, and has many more users, so it's a more
mature product, but it is a bit of a fiddle to set up, and uses a
proprietary mailbox format (something like Maildir) and isn't coded as
neatly as Dovecot :)

Best Wishes,
Chris

Florian Schnabel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i never used dovecot so far, but i heard a couple good things about it
> .. for one the debian maintainer of the exim package recommended it :-)
> 
> so i want to change our mailserver (currently using ipop3 and uw-imap)
> to dovecot ... now my boss seems to favour cyrus.
> 
> i could use some good arguments for dovecot, also your experiences with
> it and with other mailservers so i can make a reasonable desicion and
> preset some good arguments :-)
> 
> Florian


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