cyrus-imapd vs dovecot

[Michael]

> I know I am slow but I missed the relevance of the discussion about
> dovecot and imap. When you get cyrus-imapd you get servers of imapd and
> pop3d running. When you run dovecot you only get imapd servers.
> But dovecot is supposed to support pop3 also. Do you need both of
> these programs systems or is it an either or proposition?
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Dovecot does pop3 just fine, the default configuration is not on.

Edit /etc/dovecot.conf

and turn what you want on

protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s

default is just imap and imaps