Re: setting up my own imap server

["Stephen Adler" <user=65@nabble.blu.org>]

 Just as a postscript to this thread, I've setup dovecot. It's prefect 
for what I need. Simple to setup, give me imaps service and I'm done 
configuring. Thanks for the help guys. 

Cheers. Steve. 


Matt Shields wrote: 
> On Dec 17, 2007 2:35 PM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>   
>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Matt Shields wrote: 
>> 
>>     
>>> On Dec 17, 2007 1:08 PM, Stephen Adler <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>>       
>>>> Hi guys! 
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to setup my own imapd server. I used to do this, but one 
>>>> day, 
>>>> redhat/fedora changed their default imapd system over to cyrus or 
>>>> something like that which was way more compliated to setup, 
>>>>         
>> RHEL5's default imap server is cyrus, but dovecot is also included. 
>> 
>>     
>>>> so I dropped 
>>>> the idea of using my own imapd server. But I'm in a situation now 
>>>> that I 
>>>> would like to get one going again. Any suggestions as to how best 
>>>> setup 
>>>> an imap server on a fedora or redhat system? 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers. Steve. 
>>>>         
>>> Go with what you're comfortable with.  But I would stay away from 
>>> Fedora since the lifecycle is around 6 months. 
>>>       
>> No it isn't. Its more like 13 months. Each release N is supported 
>> until one month after the release of release N + 2. In other words, 
>> Fedora 8 will be supported unit 1 month after Fedora 10 is out. I run 
>> my own mail server on Fedora (dovecot + postfix + maia mailguard). Of 
>> course, Fedora is a little less scary to me, given who my employer 
>> is... :) CentOS is probably indeed a better recommendation for the 
>> less adventurous. 
>> 
>>     
> 
> Oops, forgot to add Dovecot with Postfix.  Both are very simple to 
> configure.  As said earlier, check the howtoforge.com website they 
> have a step by step tutorial. 
> 
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