On 2009/07/04 12:27, tico wrote: > I'm a big fan of Cyrus. Not because it's always the easiest to set > up, or because the documentation is retard-proof, but because it's > ridiculously scalable, and I've used it for many years without it > ever disappointing me. The more difficult (though flexible and > configurable) auth setup of Cyrus also required me to understand and > troubleshoot it better before rolling it into production, which > really saved my bacon when problems *did* occur and I would have been > lost in a "one size fits all, no configuration or understanding > required" solution.
oh, btw - Dovecot SASL certainly isn't one size fits all, it's just (imho) much easier to learn how to configure than Cyrus SASL. you can build highly scalable systems with both. there are huge installations using both Dovecot (e.g. rackspace email hosting) and Cyrus (e.g. Fastmail).
