[ale] Fedora/cyrus

[Mike Murphy]

turns out it also came with dovecot, which is much more what I'm looking 
for. That seemed to fire right up, and required only one little change 
to squirrellmail's config file (which I found with a google).



J.M. Taylor wrote:
> Cyrus for 3 users is definitely, definitely overkill.  It doesn't require
> shell accounts for users, which is in large part why it's used despite its
> complexity.  It is also remarkably flexible for such a cumbersome beast,
> especially in its authentication options.  If FC2 has managed to get the
> thing installed and running without pain, you should be able to come up to
> speed on administration fairly quickly -- cyradmin is straightforward
> assuming RH didn't replace it with something...the biggest bafflement with
> Cyrus generally is getting it configured and running without cryptic error
> messages.
> 
> Good luck
> jenn
> 
> 
> 
>>funny this subject should come up, especially cyrus:
>>
>>I loaded Fedora Core 2 on an old HP Kayak (ide and scsi inside -- I've 
>>got a whole mess of 4gb scsi drives I found on the internet for $9 a 
>>piece in there) last night, and I'm trying to get everything running.
>>
>>FC1 had the IMAP/POP arrangement I'm most used to: binaries running out 
>>of xinetd. FC2 wants to use cyrus for this. Thus far I've found cyrus, 
>>well, baffling (but I'm paging through the docs now).
>>
>>I wander what was wrong with the old imap installation? For my purposes 
>>(I want maybe 3 users to be able to read mail off this machine), cyrus 
>>seems like overkill. Is anyone already familiar with it? It doesn't look 
>>like I can even use yum to install anything else for imap.
>>
>>Otherwise, so far FC2 seems ok. As usual, I enjoyed the slick RH installer.
>>
>>Mike
> 
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