IMAP Access Not Working!!

[Matt Morgan]

On 10/21/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Fr, den 21.10.2005 schrieb Ki Song um 13:22:
>
> > > rpm -qa | grep cyrus | sort
> > > that will list you all installed packages with cyrus in their name
>
> > cyrus-sasl-2.1.20-5
> > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.20-5
> > cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.20-5
> > cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.20-5
> > cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.20-5
> >
> >
> > This is the result that comes back when I type the rpm command above.
> >
> > Does this mean that tcyrus is installed? If not, where can I get info on how
> > to install cyrus properly so I can have an IMAP server up and running?
>
> Cyrus-SASL != Cyrus-IMAPd    both are very different applications under
> maintenance of CMU. See http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
>
> You need to install the Cyrus-IMAPd packages (yum install cyrus-imapd
> cyrus-imapd-utils perl-Cyrus) if you want to run that IMAP/POP3 server.
> And even more, you have to carefully read its documentation and
> configure it. That mail access server is not trivial.

Ki, did you pick cyrus specifically because you need it? Dovecot imap
server works for most people and is easy to configure. If you're not
sure you need cyrus, consider dovecot before you press ahead. There's
a great how-to (not just for dovecot) at http://www.brennan.id.au/.