Re: general questions about cyrus

Am 02.03.2025 um 17:54:25 Uhr schrieb Dr. Thorsten Brandau via Info:

> I was using cyrus-imapd 2.2 and 2.4 for many years with mainly SuSe
> Linux up to Leap 15.2. Then for some reasons, i had to setup a new
> email server and found that cyrus is not supported, not even offered
> in the repositories anymore. After a longer search, i had to use
> manjaro/arch with the arch repositories to get cyrus (3.10) up and
> running. What makes things more complicated, that my groupware does
> not like to communicate with cyrus (group-e from endo7), especially
> not with the included sieve which affects us seriously (no automatic
> replys configureable)

Cyrus is available in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and maybe more operating
systems.

> So much for the background. So I wonder why all of a sudden (from my
> perspective) cyrus was removed from so many distributions and what
> kind of impact that has on out long term planning. My understanding
> was always cyrus being a long term scalable system and dovecot more
> the homebrew one, but it seems vice versa now?

Both are still developed further and Cyrus is backed by fastmail.
Many people prefer Dovecot, never tried that.

> - - if there is a way to setup vacation noticed/automatic reply with
> cyrus and thunderbird

You can use Sieve and use any Sieve client to change the sieve script.
There seem to be old addons for TB to manage that.

> - - alternatively getting group-e to work with cyrus 3.10 (it can
> only be configured to cyrus 2.4)

What doesn't work and what changed in Cyrus that broke it?

> - - altetnatively a recommendation for a groupeware that works with
> cyrus (egroupware lacks a number of features of group-e but is the
> closes so far, still not fully compatible with cyrus 3.10 as it seems)

SOGo does. My old workplace runs that.

> Last but not least I am lookkng for an administration/user admin tool
> for cyrus (group-e did that well) and did not find anything aside
> from cli yet

cyradm for CLI exists. Any reason for not using it?

Gyrus also exists at least in Debian:

m@ryz:~$ apt show gyrus
Package: gyrus
Maintainer: Willem van den Akker <[email protected]>
Homepage: https://gitlab.com/wvdakker/gyrus 
Description: GNOME tool for Cyrus-IMAP servers administration
 It allows through a nice GUI to control user quotas, create
 and remove mailboxes, and to manipulate the Access Control List
 for each mailbox.



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