IMAP Problems

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Aug 19 15:47:20 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 19.08.2004 schrieb Thomas E. Dukes um 17:01:

> I'd like to get it working.  I noticed the only cyrus package that was
> installed during the upgrade was the cyrus-imapd package itself.  There
> are about 10 other cyrus-xxxxx files.  Do any of the others need to be
> installed for imap to work?

> Thomas E. Dukes <edukes at alltel.net>

Do yourself a favour and switch over to dovecot. Uninstall the
cyrus-imapd package and install the dovecot package. Then edit
/etc/dovecot.conf and activate POP3 as protocol.

The install of the Cyrus-IMAPd during an upgrade is more like an
accident. The default mail server for POP3/IMAP should be dovecot, like
it is by default installed during a fresh install. Cyrus-IMAPd is much
more complicated and powerful and needs a good admin who knows some more
about mail server than just how to start a service. By default
Cyrus-IMAPd is not integrated into the MTA, so you would need to
configure that part too.

Alexander


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