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

[SSI - Benjamin Morel]

Ok thanks a lot Lloyd,
I'm not planning to upgrade to RHEL4 at this moment, so I'll make a choice 
between Courier-IMAP & Dovecot.

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 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Postfix + Maildir + IMAP/POP3


> 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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