IMAP Access Not Working!!

[Matt Morgan]

On 10/21/05, Ki Song <ki at knifecenter.com> wrote:
>
>
> > From: Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:59:50 -0400
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: IMAP Access Not Working!!
> >
> > 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/.
> >
>
> I chose cyrus because it was listed as the IMAP server in the Perfect Setup
> - Fedora Core 4. There is no other specific reason I chose that server.
>
> The site you pointed me to above looks good, however, I can't find any
> reference to Dovecot.
>
> Where is it?

Well, that's funny, I can't find it either ... I set up my home server
according to that How-to. Maybe dovecot just works out of the box?
Seriously ... I don't remember having to do anything except install it
and turn it on, now that you mention it.