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[Drew Bertola]

Kevin Smathers wrote:
> Luckily I had just set up two new machines at work running CentOS 4.4 
> (which is basically a recompilation of RHES 4), but found that Redhat, 
> and thus CentOS have inexplicably chosen to replace WU imapd with 
> cyrus-imapd.  Cyrus was created in hell just to torture system 
> administrators.  I ran Cyrus for three weeks, and it was down for about 
> five days in that time, lost its entire database of messages twice (once 
> was a hardware fault though), experienced daily lock-ups (I ended up 
>   


You should be running dovecot.  It's the default imap daemon for CentOs
and is very stable and very fast (granted, I've only had about 120 users
pulling on it, and maybe at most 60-80 connected at one time).  The
mailbox heirarchy makes sense:

/var/spool/mail/user => INBOX
~/mail/mboxes_tree

and you don't need the "Do Not Remove this ..." mail at the top of each
mbox, which seems to help avoid mbox corruption problems.

Dovecot seems to do everything well, at least, I haven't found anything
dovecot is particularly bad at.

UW is gone because, IIRC, there were maintainer / maintenance issues (or
was that licensing issues).

Cyrus is just in the distro to allow a choice.  It is a nightmare but
some admins are locked into using it (because of namespace issues?).

--
Drew