Re: IMAP Access Not Working!!

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> From: Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:59:50 -0400
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: IMAP Access Not Working!!
> 
> On 10/21/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> 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?

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