Re: [webmin-l] while we're at it (cyrus imapd)

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:14 -0500, Joe Cooper wrote:
> Yes.  Dovecot is not a "drink the Kool-aid" kind of server, the way 
> Cyrus is.
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that's a rather extreme metaphor Mr. Jones ;-)

the fact is that mailboxes, seen messages, duplicate message supression
etc. are indeed indexed using db's which make it so darn fast. I have no
test data comparing dovecot performance to cyrus so I let your 5%
performance claim go since I have no way of proving or disproving and I
suspect that your 5% claim was just simply a uswag.

Likewise using cyrus-imapd, sieve scripts are all previously bytecoded
(compiled) for faster performance rather than shell execution of
procmail. Perhaps Joe wants to toss another 5% figure at that too.

While you probably can use UserMin to access maildir stores, you aren't
going to benefit from subscription lists, seen state or imap flags
without an IMAP login and if you had an IMAP login, then cyrus-imapd
would work as well...but an IMAP login isn't part of the feature set of
UserMin.

Craig


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