pine program and mail services with FC6 System

[edwardspl at ita.org.mo]

Tim wrote:

>On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 22:13 +0800, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
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>>I just download and install the pine
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>>Now, I want to know how to disable the function (except for pine and
>>pico) of pine and enable the function (imap/pop3) of dovcot
>>(/etc/dovecot.conf) come with FC6 System for WebMail System (eg :
>>http://www.horde.org/imp/4.1/)? 
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>Pine is a standalone mail client.  Unless you actually run it, it does
>nothing.  Even if you do run it, it has no bearing on the ability of
>Dovecot to do its job.
>
>Dovecot is a standalone mail server.  Unless you actually start it up,
>it does nothing.  And again, you don't have to do anything to Pine to
>use or not use Dovecot.
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>The two of them have nothing to do with each other, software-wise.
>
>By the looks of things, all you'll need to do is run pico when you want
>to edit text files, set up Dovecot for your local mail, set up Horde to
>suit the mail server you want it to use (your local Dovecot
>installation).
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>You might want to write back with any specific questions you have about
>setting them up, and letting us know how far you've got on your own.
>Mind you, it was back on FC4 that I set up Dovecot, even longer since
>I've used Pine, and I haven't ever set up Horde (I did once set up
>another webmail service on Fedora or Red Hat Linux, I don't recall it
>being particularly difficult).  So it's probably someone else who'll
>answer.
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So...how to config ( enable ) the Dovecot ( /etc/dovecot.conf ) ?
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