[rhn-users] Postfix + Maildir + IMAP/POP3

[Lloyd H. Meinholz]

With RHEL3, only UW-IMAP (no maildir) is supported. With RHEL4, Dovecot 
and Cyrus are supported. So if you want IMAP and maildir with RHEL3, you 
are going to have to build your own and it won't be supported by RH. I 
don't think this is the end of the world though. I have done this and 
I'm sure many others have also and it has worked well.

If you are planning to migrate to RHEL4 someday and if you don't have an 
IMAP server preference and if RH support is important to you, I would 
suggest Dovecot. I've heard Cyrus was a pain to configure (although I've 
never used it). I have used Courier in the past and liked it, but 
decided to go with Dovecot because it seems to have a cleaner design to 
me and RH is supporting it in RHEL4. Courier has a very slick way to 
create RPM's from the source tarball that makes it very easy to use on 
any RHEL system, so it may still be worth considering.

Lloyd


SSI - Benjamin Morel wrote:
> Thanks for your answer Lloyd, but I searched RHN for "dovecot" and 
> "cyrus", and here are the results :
> - Dovecot : "No packages."
> - Cyrus : "cyrus-sasl : The Cyrus SASL library."
> 
> None of these two severs seem to be included in RHEL3 :(
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd H. Meinholz" 
> <lloyd.meinholz at bmpcoe.org>
> To: "Red Hat Network Users List" <rhn-users at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Postfix + Maildir + IMAP/POP3
> 
> 
>> I think the RHEL3 IMAP server (UW-IMAP) does not support maildir. 
>> There are other IMAP servers than Courier-IMAP that support maildir. I 
>> use Dovecot and I'm pretty sure the Cyrus IMAP server also supports 
>> maildir. If you aren't committed to using one, maybe Dovecot is a good 
>> choice since it's the default in RHEL4 (although Cyrus RPM's also seem 
>> available).
>>
>> Lloyd
>>
>>
>> SSI - Benjamin Morel wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> I installed Postfix with Maildir support on my RHEL3 server.
>>> After investigating a little bit on google, I couldn't figure out if I
>>> really need to use a Courier-Imap installation to retrieve my mails with
>>> IMAP/POP3, or if the bundled Imap rpm package (imapd/ipop3d) can also 
>>> access
>>> Maildir mailboxes, and not only mbox ones. Is there a config file for 
>>> it ?
>>> (It seems to only check /var/spool/mail/user content)
>>>
>>> In other words, is Courier-Imap the only solution to access Maildir
>>> mailboxes via IMAP/POP3 ?
>>> Can't we use one of the redhat bundled RPM packages (and keep Posftix of
>>> course, not replace it by QMail ;)) ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in avance.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Benjamin
>>>
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