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[ILUG] pop3 or imap for internal mail server?

[ILUG] pop3 or imap for internal mail server?

Conor Wynne weeboy at conorwynne.com
Sat Dec 4 18:28:21 GMT 2004


> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at cyrus-imapd for this purpse, and installed it
>> (under Fedora-3), and it works as far as running imtest on the
>> laptop is concerned.
>
> Cyrus IMAP is a bit 'industrial strength'. Try dovecot instead, which
> will be able to serve out your existing mailbox files.

I've never tried dovecot - must look into that.
Instead I went for "imap-2002d", which is dead simple - all that is
required in to do a "chkconfig imap on", open the firewall port, and away
you go.

You can also choose "imaps" for a bit of security.

> regards,
> --
> Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A

-- 
Conor Wynne,
Dublin,
Irlande.



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