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

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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Re:Who uses IMAP in 2017??

[Billly Gates]

I'm glad you don't live in my universe.

In my universe you would be out of a job if the boss asked why his freebusy function in Outlook wasn't working to set meetings up. Sucks, but there is no standard and Helix decided to use Exchanges protocol last decade and never took off with the gnome guys before they did a dumb cell phone interface.

Google Docs decided not to create another open standard and neither does LibreOffice which makes it unsuitable for the real world. So of course a university who developed IMAP will abandon it. The college president wants his Outlook calendar and Skype to work from the cloud. Simple.

Want to change this then go make a new standard that everyone can use that does more than just email.