Cyrus (server)

Cyrus
Basic data
Maintainer	Carnegie Mellon University
developer	Carnegie Mellon University
Current  version	2.5.13 ( May 27, 2019 )
operating system	Unix ( POSIX )
programming language	C.
category	E-mail - server
License	BSD license
www.cyrusimap.org

Cyrus is a free mail server from Carnegie Mellon University . The server software was originally developed for the university's campus mail system, but it is now a recognized mail delivery agent that is also used in the professional sector . It currently supports the IMAP , JMAP and POP3 protocols and works with various SMTP servers under Linux / Unix. Cyrus uses the Cyrus SASL Library , an implementation of SASL , to provide several authentication methods: CRAM-MD5 , Digest-MD5, GSSAPI , OTP , Plain, PAM . Some of these methods use strong cryptography.

See also

• Mail delivery agent
• Courier Mail Server
• Dovecot
• UW IMAP

literature

• Peer Heinlein , Peer Hartleben: POP3 and IMAP - Mailserver with Courier and Cyrus , Open Source Press , September 2007, ISBN 978-3-937514-11-6

Web links

• Web presence of the project
• Installation instructions from Cyrus on FreeBSD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release 2.5.13 . May 27, 2019 (accessed May 27, 2019).