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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?

6 of 72 comments (clear)

  1. I already left.. by Ostrich25 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I migrated off Cyrus years ago (to Dovecot) because for my small installation needs, Cyrus was obscenely overcomplicated. I also hate Cyrus SASL with the heat of a thousand suns.

  2. Meanwhile at the University of Washington by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    IMAP server support continues. The sole remaining developer, Darrin, recently attempted to escape - but he was quickly apprehended by UW Police and returned to his closet.

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    1. Re:Meanwhile at the University of Washington by Nethead · · Score: 3, Funny

      I hope he's not pine-ing away.

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

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

  4. 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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  5. Not quite dead yet by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While FastMail is based on Cyrus IMAP, and is providing resources for its development and documentation, I think it is to early to declare Cyrus completely finished. In terms of collaboration features, the addition of CardDAV and CalDAV support a few years ago helped somewhat. Lack of its own file sharing tools is a serious limitation, but FastMail has managed a degree of integration with Dropbox.

    Hold off on a variation of the dead parrot sketch for the time being!!