Hi Greg,
Wow, that was straight to the point! :) I wholeheartedly agree though.
I've found Cyrus to be the most flexible, reliable mail system available to
date, and once it's set up it never has needed fixing or tweaking. The
problem is that the set up process is *extremely* painful - so much so that
I've held off from upgrading one of my FreeBSD servers to the latest version
of the OS because I know I'm going to have to go through the Cyrus process
again. Every time I've installed Cyrus on any OS - be it FreeBSD, Linux or
Solaris - there have always been issues with it.
I think it would be an excellent idea for the developers to concentrate on
updating the documentation for the next incremental release, and/or provide
a better installation method (some sort of setup script for example), rather
than adding features. Last I looked (admittedly I'm still using 2.0.7) much
of the documentation was still tied to the 1.5.x series and was actually
incorrect for the version I had.
Anyways, just my 2c worth. Again as I have said before, the product is a
dream to use, but the installation procedure is enough to put many would be
users off from running it.
Cheerio,
D.
Dan Makovec
Fat Canary Software
ICQ: 1398090
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: dglynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: What a BITCH!
> Yes sir, do I feel happy! Well, through the pain and
> suffering follows cyrus imap and sendmail! I finally
> configured them both and my mail server is up
> and running! That was THE BIGGEST BITCH to get working though
> and I've really had to do a lot of hacking and thread reading
> to get it just right.
>
> I want to make one comment about cyrus (et all). There
> REALLY NEEDS TO BE BETTER DOCUMENTATION ON A SYSTEM LIKE
> THIS!!! I mean all the way to every nook and cranny
> that pertains to sendmail to sasl to imapd! I learned a
> hell of a lot of stuff on all three but I REALLY had to
> hack to get them working together. Does it need to be
> this hard?? Is there a reason for it being this hard??
> Do people out there want it to be this hard so that
> others may suffer??
>
> Anyhow, I plan on FULLY documumenting my efforts and
> pitfalls and posting this to the list and the website
> because I'm SICK of it being this hard. I mean, people
> don't hack RPM'm and sendmail.mc files all day and
> it really could be easier.
>
> -thanks to all who helped, Greg
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Greg Lynn
> System Admin / Programmer
>
> Virginia VIEW
> http://www.vaview.vt.edu/
>
>
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