Inclusion of cyrus-imapd and mimedefang

[Mark Mielke]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:08:45AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > I agree with Chris. Although, I don't like the default install configurations
> > installing multiple tools that all do the same thing. Perhaps the default
> > should be to only provide either cyrus-imap or dovecot?
> I disagree in this case.

> Cyrus and dovecot handle imap for two different scales of systems right
> now. Cyrus being a larger more complex system and dovecot being much
> more straightforward.

I suspect that a lot more people, in terms of actual desktop installations,
would choose dovecot or not dovecot over cyrus-imap.

My main peave is with distribution bloat. I hate having 3 or 4 implementations
of the same thing, especially when I don't use any of them.

Having the RPM's on the CD is good enough for me. I can install it if
I really want it. I assume that a system that required capacity and
scalability, that wanted to use cyrus-imap, would have a competent
enough system administrator to execute 'rpm -Uvh cyrus-imap...' after
installation. :-)

mark

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