Am Mo, den 18.10.2004 schrieb jordan@xxxxxxxxxxx um 18:10: > I am using fedora core 2. I was running an old version of Mandrake and when my hardware died, I decided to > upgrade the OS as well. I was using pop on the previous release so this may be creating the problem (I am trying > to use my old mail files... read on) > > I could not find an imap service in my distro, so went googling for one. I found cyrus-imap. > > I installed cyrus 2.2.3-11 on my fedora system. First thing it did while installing was to tell me that cyrus user did > not exist, so it would use root. The user is created when installing the cyrus-imapd RPM. > When I tried starting it, I get "error converting databases" You did what? Your previous mail was already in the Cyrus-IMAPd Maildir format or different? > So I have two questions (maybe three?) > 1) Is it bad for cyrus to run as root? Yes. > 2) How can I uninstall it so I can do it right? man rpm man yum > 3) What is the error and how can I fix it? (I tried googling for it, but found nothing of interest.) You have to be sure about the previous mail format. > 4) Should I fall back and use a pop daemon? (if so, which one?) Cyrus-IMAPd provides POP3 / POP3s support as well. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 18:48:08 up 4 days, 13:59, load average: 0.12, 0.42, 0.38
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