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Thanks John; I just forwarded a copy of this to my boss, who was a
little uncomfortable with my using Cyrus to replace Netscape last
summer. Cyrus has done such a great job, his doubts have diminished
greatly. Still, this kind of testimonial from IT Directors at other
institutions is invaluable.
In my bosses opinion, what Cyrus lacks is a 'pretty interface' for
administration, as Exchange has. While I'm perfectly comfortable with
current tools, most of my co-workers (boss included) would prefer a nice
GUI like you find with Microsoft products. To me, this is judging a
book by it's cover.
Fortunately he _does_ understand the value of open standards, which is
probably the main reason we're enjoying Cyrus today.
regards,
David
"John C. Amodeo" wrote:
>
> Randall,
>
> Paying for software is really not an issue. The University has spent hundreds
> of thousands of dollars for hundreds of copies of Novell, a site license for
> McAfee, Oracle, etc.
>
> The point here is Cyrus is such a powerful program, with an outstanding track
> record, that despite the few features it lacks at this point, you couldn't ask
> for more, in my opinion. In addition, my goal is to see all of the Exchange
> server go away, and the only way to do that is to prove there is a better
> system out there and put it to work. Having one that's free makes it that
> much easier to convince others to switch.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, I will keep it in the back of my mind.
>
> -John
>
> "Randall S. Winchester" wrote:
>
> > If you do not mind "paying" for a server, Sendmail has a POP/IMAP message
> > store that is quite similar to the cyrus message store format. It does
> > support multiple domains, and has a GUI to allow delegated per domain
> > administration as well.
> >
> > Randall
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, John C. Amodeo wrote:
> >
> > : Greetings,
> > :
> > : Let me first start by extending my warmest thanks to everyone who has
> > : replied to my original message regarding Cyrus capabilities to partition
> > : into multiple independent mail servers. After reading your suggestions,
> > : and giving some considerable thought to what would be in our best
> > : interest, we have decided to run Cyrus on multiple IP aliases. This
> > : seems to be the most common work around for the the multiple domain
> > : problem. The one major draw back to using this method is every time
> > : Cyrus is updated to a new version, multiple copies of the binary will
> > : need to be compiled all with different parameters (i.e. conf files
> > : directory, etc.) If you have, lets say, 4 Cyrus servers per physical
> > : box, and 6 or so imap server, you can see what a nightmare this would be
> > : every time a new version comes out.
> > :
> > : One of my colleagues came up with a suggestion that consists of
> > : modifying the Cyrus code so we can pass variables to the binary when it
> > : is invoked. For instance, instead of compiling Cyrus with
> > : /etc/imap.conf and /etc/cyus.conf hard coded in, we could modify the
> > : code to accept a variable or two when the master is invoked. This way,
> > : we can have 1 binary on the server, but invoke 4 masters with different
> > : parameters (like location of imap.conf and cyrus.conf). I guess this is
> > : the same concept as the "-s" switch to run imaps, and so on.
> > :
> > : Is this possible or am I totally getting out of control? Has anyone
> > : done this or attempted to do this yet?
> > :
> > : When our system is up and functioning well, we plan to write some good
> > : documentation about ways to integrate Cyrus / Linux into a "business"
> > : environment that uses Novell and Windows for file sharing and
> > : application distribution.
> > :
> > : -John
> > : ______________________________________________
> > : John C. Amodeo, Associate Director
> > : Information Technology and Computer Operations
> > : Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Rutgers University
> > : 732.932.9455-voice 732.932.0013-fax
> > :
