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After 19 Years CMU Discontinues Cyrus IMAP In Favor Of Microsoft Exchange And Gmail (cmu.edu)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the mail-migrations dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader Hobart writes: The Cyrus IMAP server, created by and for Carnegie Mellon University, has lost support of its founding institution. As of last fall, they announced that student and faculty email will be run on Microsoft Exchange, or Google's Gmail suite of apps. The company FastMail seems to be the primary driver of Cyrus IMAPd software now, per their December blog post. Are any Slashdot readers migrating their Cyrus-based services, or are there compelling reasons to chose it over the competition?

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  1. CMU Confirms: IMAP Is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft

    RIP

  2. So... by cheesybagel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which administrator is getting the kickback from Microsoft for this particular choice?

  3. Re:It's complicated. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything it does, dovecot does better.

    Yup - switched a decade ago and never looked back. Thanks for '04-'07 tho.

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  4. Who uses IMAP in 2017?? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Today people need more than email and calendar, Skype, and meeting options.

    Unfortunately, the community defined the imap standard IEEE but no calendar and meeting and freebusy functionality so MS defined the standard instead.

    Email might be fine for student uses but is incompatible for the needs of staff.

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