I chose dovecot over cyrus because of the documented install steps that
I found for cyrus. The fact that I would have to create imap accounts to
be used with cyrus v.s. using the list of existing unix users as the
list of email users. It was just a simple install for someone who had
not installed or configured either of the imap servers before. I do
intend to visit the mater further as far as security, stability, add-on
features, and speed. The idea in mind is to create a simple install pack
that will reduce and standardize the installation of smb servers for
customers as well as spreading the work on Linux. A large portion of the
business industry is small mom and pop businesses, that I feel have been
left out of the linux world. Commercial software developers don't
provide as many aps for linux as they do for Windows for a reason. That
can be changed very quickly if we can convert a large portion of these
smb businesses to linux. My plan is to pull together alist of commonly
used packages that provide all of the services and apps used by smb
business to include accounting packages, pos sytems, and so on.
Ditt
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 16:33 -0500, Austin Theen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 15:39 -0500, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > Hylafax is a good server. My major aggravation with hylafax has been in
> > finding an easily installed and configured GUI client for it for
> > Windows. I haven't looked into GUI clients for it that work in Linux
> > systems, because I haven't had any particular need to do so, but the
> > kind of hoops I've had to jump through in the past to get GUI hylafax
> > clients set up on Windows machines . . . well, it's just not reasonable.
>
> I highly recommend Cypheus (www.cypheus.de). It connects directly to
> Hylafax, supports a mysql backend for a global address book. Supports
> just about ever feature in hylafax. My only gripe about it is that it's
> fax cover sheet templates are a bit weak, but then again, I just wrap
> some perl in the hylafax send que and that solved it.
>
> It's free to use for personal use / non-profit, but registration is
> fairly cheap. Something like $35 per seat and quantity discounts.
>
> > The server itself is mostly a no-brainer. Some of the initial
> > configuration decisions that need to be made are not instantly
> > self-evident, but they're not difficult to figure out (just make sure
> > you don't start the telephone number with a plus sign, regardless of how
> > the configuration script phrases its question). Let me know if you
> > figure out a simple, easy solution for graphical clients, though.
>
> I'd like to hear more about why you chose to run dovecot over courier or
> cyrus. I'm running courier-imapd and have had narry a problem with it.
> Easy to setup imaps and pop3s.
>
> Austin
>
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