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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. Hope they look close & rule out GMail... by bogaboga · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are any Slashdot readers migrating their Cyrus-based services, or are there compelling reasons to chose it over the competition?

    I must admit: I do not know much about Cyrus-based services, so can't speak to that.

    I will however talk about GMail and my frustration(s) with it.

    1: It's ugly and cumbersome to use by default. An Outlook-like interface has proven itself. To make GMail look like Outlook, one must install and enable some 3rd party add-on.

    2: Email threads are a pain to follow. Their interface is just kind of complicated compared to proven solutions out there.

    3: Lack of folders by default. I know one can use IMAP. But the key here is availability of something by default.

    4: It's just too plain...Some say it's ugly.