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Perhaps they should have tried Dovecot.

• creeble 9y ago
  Indeed, one surprise here is that Cyrus is still around. Sad that gmail now owns ~50% of all email now though. (I made that number up. Anyone have any idea how close it may be?)
  • duskwuff 9y ago
    For personal email addresses in the US, my experience would put that number closer to 80%. In some audiences, it'll be even higher.
    • nocman 9y ago
      And even for the people who have non-Gmail accounts, Google has made deals with a ton of ISPs to host their email service for them -- so you have a Gmail account even if don't have a Gmail account (in a manner of speaking).
      • tinus_hn 9y ago
        Do people still use ISP email addresses?
        • nocman 9y ago
          Yes people do. I know a lot of people don't, but there are still a lot of people who do.
• SwellJoe 9y ago
  Cyrus isn't particularly inferior to Dovecot. Dovecot is a newer project (but still quite old), and thus maybe a little less crufty. But, I don't know anyone that considers Cyrus to be a bad tool or poorly maintained. I chose Dovecot for Virtualmin a dozen years ago, but it wasn't because Cyrus was bad. Dovecot has some advantages, but Cyrus has a few, too; Cyrus is much further along on their JMAP implementation than Dovecot, for example, as far as I can tell.
• mgbmtl 9y ago
  According to the announcement, two main factors motivating the switch were calendar tools and having "modern" tools, which I interpret as having a better web-based UI. While Roundcube is OK, and personally I like Zimbra as the best turn-key system (webmail+calendar, which we use for our company), their UIs are a bit outdated and feel like second-class solutions.