Cyrus is an imap server designed to handle massive quantities of mail, with a number of features not found in other imap implementations, including support for:
- running the daemon without root privileges;
- pop3 in addition to plain imap;
- pop/imap-before-smtp using drac;
- secure imap using ssl;
- server-side filtering with sieve;
- mail users without login accounts;
- simple mail quotas;
- virtual domains;
- ipv6.
this package contains the imap (internet mail access protocol) portion of the cyrus imapd suite.