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Dovecot-lda vs Cyrus
When comparing Dovecot-lda vs Cyrus, the Slant community recommends Dovecot-lda for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux mail delivery agents (MDAs)?” Dovecot-lda is ranked 1st while Cyrus is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Dovecot-lda is:
Dovecot has a thorough [documentation](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo) and examples.
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Pros
Pro Great documentation
Dovecot has a thorough documentation and examples.
Pro Works great with postfix
Dovecot-lda is commonly paired with postfix. As such there are a lot of resources available for setting them up together.
Pro Supports Sieve
Requires Pigeonhole sieve plugin.
Pro Quota enforcing
Pro Mailbox indexing during mail delivery
Pro Natively supports maildir, mbox and dbox
Pro Supports Sieve
Pro Intended for sealed servers
Cons
Con Don't support STMPUTF8 yet
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