I'm afraid I have to concur with this.  The documentation for Cyrus is very bad.  Much of what I have ever done with Cyrus has been constructed with guess work, trial and error, and browsing the mailing list archives or asking stupid questions on the list.  What documentation is available for Cyrus is badly organised, too terse, or very out of date.

The Cyrus IMAP system is very powerful and very helpful and I'm extremely glad that it exists and is Open Source software.  In a way Cyrus seems to be like one of those "secret" tools that only the email Guru's know about and keep secret in fear that their secret will somehow slip out.

I think we as a community of users need to pick up the ball here, the guys at ASG have given us something for nothing and we need to take a more proactive role in creating a good support community around it.  The seeds of a great OpenSource project are there.  They are just not well organised.  There is no unifying force to gravitate towards.  We have things like the Wiki, Simon Matter's RPMS, this mailing list etc.  These are all fundamental building blocks upon which to build.

Although the guys as ASG might not agree but I think it is about time that Cryus got it's own domain name.  www.cyrusimap.org is free.  I'm more than happy to donate some of my own time and money to register this domain name, and setup some software etc on my webserver for use by the Cyrus community if it is needed.

Who else out there that feels the same way I do?

Regards

    The problem with Freeware is that most times the documents that
accompany the software severely lack any substance.  This software does
exactly what I expect a Mail Package to do in this day of Virtual Domains;
however, the process to get there was less then desirable.

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