[svlug] Spam IS up !

[Kevin Smathers]

Drew Bertola wrote:
> Kevin Smathers wrote:
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>> 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 
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> 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:
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I did eventually figure out that dovecot also provided an imap daemon, 
but by that point I was beyond my patience for playing with new 
software, which means figuring out where to put the SSL, rewriting my 
whitelist harvesting and mailing list redirectors for yet another 
mailbox format, etc.  I should have just rebuilt the machines on SuSE, 
but there were too many bits and pieces that would have had to be 
reinstalled.

Cheers,
-kls